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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 2

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Writing, Mad, Mind

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

Law, Cities

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

Rocks, Shock

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

Mistake, Mind, Scratches

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Wonder, Hours, Tales

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

Light, Ears, Oar

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

Lying, Deceit, Maids

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Hate, Heart, Hatred

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

Morality, Rough, Johnson

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.279, Sheba Blake Publishing

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Depth, World, Truth Is

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

Age, Decay, Divinity

Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.198

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

Adolescence

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.88, Routledge

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Freedom, Cynical, Dignity

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Life, Wisdom, Tree

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Love, Broken Heart, Happy Valentines Day

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Kindness, Adversity, Not Giving Up

Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Inspirational, Life, Fall

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Men, Thinking, Dust

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Hilarious, Being Alone, Appetite For Life

This is the age of oddities let loose.

Oddities, Age

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.40, Xist Publishing

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Funny, Truth, Fiction

Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

And Love, Drink, Nickels

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

Men, Divine, Source

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.16, Routledge

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

Time, Feelings, Torture

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.269, Delphi Classics

Self praise is no praise at all.

Self, Vanity, Praise