The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Thought, Thoughts
Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Life
Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Pleasure
Such hath it been— shall be— beneath the sun The many still must labor for the one.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Labor
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Dying, Death, Sleep
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Self-love, Love
That trembling vessel of the pole, the feeling compass, navigation’s soul.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
A paler shadow strews its mantle over the mountains; parting day dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues with a new color as it gasps away.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
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
Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Sleep, Dreams
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Sincerity
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses—that man your navy, and recruit your army—that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Tyranny
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.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Happiness
I loathe that low vice, curiosity.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Curiosity
Ye stars, that are the poetry of heaven!
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Stars
One hates an author that’s all author.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Writing
Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Fate
She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Romance
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Writing, Letters
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so—or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Love
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Love
Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high an opinion of one’s self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded of every known or supposed defect we may have.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Solitude
Fill high the cup with Samian wine
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Wine
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Regret, Future
The Cardinal is at his wit’s end—it is true that he had not far to go.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Stupidity
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Tourism, Travel
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: Authors & Writing, Writing, Writers
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Science
And when we think we lead, we are most led.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Service
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