Lord Byron Quotes about Art

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Lord Byron

Art, Poetry, Should

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

Lord Byron

Sports, Art, Animal

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Lord Byron

Art, Philosophy, History

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.164, Cambridge University Press

Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

Lord Byron

Art, Men, Long Ago

Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.263, BookRix

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Lord Byron

Art, Writing, Men

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2993, Delphi Classics

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Lord Byron

Hope, Art, Majestic

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

Lord Byron

Country, Art, Son

Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord Byron

Art, Military, Army

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Lord Byron

Art, Riding, Fencing

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

Lord Byron

Wise, Art, Moving

Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.84