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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 6

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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

Wise, Time, Hands

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Change, Years, Scare

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

Thinking, Ink, Millions

A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

Pretty Woman, Guests, Welcome

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.84, Routledge

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

Long, Evil, Strange

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

Pain, Health, Men

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Beach, Ocean, Dark

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Love, Heart, Voice

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Love Is, Thinking, Literature

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.165, Xist Publishing

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

Change, Time, Stars

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Mind, Clay, Delicacy

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Language, Speak, Armenians

"A people killed twice" by Julia Pascal, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Christian, Gains, Nothing To Lose

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Dwelling Place, Desert, Spirit

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 177

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Desire, Cost, Lessons

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.212, Delphi Classics

The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

Pain, Accomplishment, Battle

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Believe, Sleep, Men

Who then will explain the explanation?

Statistics, Explanation

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

Love, Sex, Opinion

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3011, Delphi Classics

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Life, Stars, Night

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 99

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

Dark, Fire, Flames

George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

The poetry of speech.

Poetry, Speech

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.97, Sheba Blake Publishing

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

Vineyards, Cellars

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.408, Xist Publishing

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

America, People, Rude

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Life, Birthday, Time

'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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

Quotes: 589

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