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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 5

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Selfish, Trust No One, Literature

It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

Thinking

Good but rarely came from good advice.

Advice, Good Advice

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.298

O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Love, Life, Passion

Don Juan canto 3, st. 3 (1821)

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

Inspirational, Friendship, Heart

George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

Atheism, Favors, Positive Atheism

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

Hope, Heart, Break

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Sports, Art, Animal

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Love, Funny, Life

We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

Mistake, Inspiration, Believe

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

Men, Strange, Stranger

"Don Juan".

Socrates said, our only knowledge was "To know that nothing could be known;" a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present. Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only "like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth."

Ocean, Past, Men

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2079, Delphi Classics

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Laughter, Drinking, Food

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Evil, Literature, Mystery

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Moral, Sometimes, Sin

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 133

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Dream, Gone, Athens

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Ideas, Dissent, Shrouds

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

Sea, Tears, Dignity

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

Heart, Eye, Brave

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1218, Delphi Classics

Life is too short for chess.

Life Is Too Short, Chess Game, Life It Too Short

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Want, Companionship, Should

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

Work, Passion, People

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Marriage, Wise, Wisdom

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

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Inspirational, Giving, Joy

'Stanzas for Music' March 1815

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

Quotes: 589

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