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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 18

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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

Sad, Grief, Flower

'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

Love, Farewell, Vain

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

Marriage, Knowing, Unhappy

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.333, Routledge

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

School, Men, Two

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Funny, Stupidity, Literature

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Literature, Fortune, All Things

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

Time, Thinking, Calendars

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Family, Children, Home

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Loneliness, Solitude, Feelings

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

Food, Men, Apples

George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.

Heart, Moon, Night

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.533, Delphi Classics

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

Ocean, Sea, Boat

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

Heart, Spirit, Worship

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1164, Delphi Classics

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Should Have, Fishing, Vices

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2252, Delphi Classics

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

Eye, Tears, Weakness

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.856, Delphi Classics

So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

Sweet, Wish, Pity

George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

Spain, Chivalry, Ridicule

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 11

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

Sweet, Night, Wind

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.23

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

Different, Hay, Bulls

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.558, Delphi Classics

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

War, Men, Essence

When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past - For years fleet away with the wings of the dove - The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

Kissing, Past, Blood

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

Tears, Graves, Dies

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Spring, Responsibility, Should Have

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Funny, Humorous, Italian

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

Medicine, Physicians, Ends

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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

Quotes: 589

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