Lord Byron Quotes about Truth

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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Funny, Truth, Fiction

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

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Lord Byron

Hope, Truth, Pain

Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

Lord Byron

Truth, Soul, Secret

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

...And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Lord Byron

Truth, War, Adversity

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

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

Truth, Fire, Names

George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”