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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 8

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Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

Love, One Love, Sigh

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Romance, Literature

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.437, Xist Publishing

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Coffee, Fall, Men

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.429, Xist Publishing

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

Love, Sex, Water

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

Religious

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Tears, Literature, Form

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Jealousy, World, Shows

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

Men, Trying, Incapable

Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.335, Routledge

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

Hymns, Hypocrisy, Vaunt

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Dance, Aquarius, Feet

Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.60, Sheba Blake Publishing

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

Life, Friendship, Balls

My native land, good night!

Good Night, Land, Native

Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.18

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.

Anchors, Eternity, Bark

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

Ends, Difficult

LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.99

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Statistics, Description, Damn

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2596, Delphi Classics

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Song, Singing, Sound

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

They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

Memories, Past, Thinking

George Gordon Byron, “Stanzas For Music: They Say That Hope Is Happiness”

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

Fall, Ambition, Blood

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

From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

Spring, Home, Heart

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Drinking, Food, Salad

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.12, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Love, Friends, Jealousy

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Men, Religion, Speak

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Hypocrisy, Hell, Hypocritical

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2201, Delphi Classics

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

Heart

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.827, Delphi Classics

Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

Hate, Misanthrope, Call Me

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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

Quotes: 589

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