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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 17

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Lying, Evil, Clay

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.

Country, Sight, Land

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.43

Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

Country, Sight, Land

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Simple, Example, Wordsworth

'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 241 (of Wordsworth)

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

Passion, Names, Magic

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.126, Sheba Blake Publishing

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

Heritage, Woe, Lord

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Vanity, May, Example

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.22, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

Freedom, Blow, Would Be

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

Sweet, Heart, Voice

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Pain, Ideas, Giving

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Eye, Dear Ones, Phrases

Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Hope, Art, Majestic

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

Country, Art, Son

Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

Christian, Religion, Atheism

Don Juan canto 1, st. 83 (written 1818)

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

Confidence, Believe, June

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

Hero, Writing, Men

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

Should Have, Tyrants, Want

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.243, Delphi Classics

Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

Sun, Labor, Stills

'The Corsair' (1814) canto 1, st. 8

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

Long, Doubt, Quiet

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.37, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

Political, Vengeance, Enough

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.900, Delphi Classics

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Age, Towers, Marathon

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.52, Sheba Blake Publishing

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

Sweet, Ivy, Names

'Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa' November 1821

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Endurance, Inequality

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.997, Delphi Classics

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

Mind, Bishops, Matter

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 11, st. 1

My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

Heart, Sleep, Eye

Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Born: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Occupation: Baron Byron

Quotes: 589

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