It is useless to tell me not to reason but to believe—you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Faith
Such hath it been— shall be— beneath the sun The many still must labor for the one.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Labor
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Hatred, Hate
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Genius, Talent
In that fatal word,—howe’er we promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
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.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Men, Women, Men & Women
Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Memory
I do not believe in revealed religion – I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Religion
Who falls from all he knows of bliss, dares little into what abyss.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Oh, that pang, where more than madness lies, the worm that will not sleep, and never dies.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Guilt
Her great merit is finding out mine—there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Constancy… that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Marriage
That is the most perfect government under which a wrong to the humblest is an affront to all.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Government
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Brave
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Thinking
Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Danger
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man’s very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Women, Men and Women, Men, Men & Women
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Shame
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Inheritance
Night wanes; the vapors round the mountains curled, melt into morn, and light awakes the world.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Morning
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life: the evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Wife
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers
Speech is the image of actions.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Speech
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate’s sultry.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Weather
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Fate
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon—the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Excuses
For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Dying, Death, Nature
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much—and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Pleasure
Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer, when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Physics
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