Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (English Romantic Poet)

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824,) known as Lord Byron, was an English poet. He not only was English literature’s first celebrity superstar but also gained notoriety for his many love affairs.

Byron was born in London. His clubfoot had a significant effect on his future disposition. He spent his early years in Aberdeen and was educated at Cambridge. He took an expedition to Portugal, Spain, Albania, Greece, and Constantinople. The striking scenery and the exotic cultures that he experienced on this tour formed the basis for the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1809,) which made him famous overnight. Facing mounting pressure because of his failed marriage, infamous (and incestuous) relationships, and huge debts, Byron left England in 1816 and never returned.

In 1819, while staying in Venice, Byron wrote some of his most celebrated works, including Don Juan (1819–24.) In 1823, he left Italy to join the Greek revolutionaries in their fight for independence against the Ottoman Empire. He caught marsh fever and died at Missolonghi in 1824.

Byron’s poetry was prevalent despite being widely criticized for moral reasons. Much of his poetry and drama exerted considerable influence on the Romantic Movement. His legacy of inspiration in European poetry, music, the novel, opera, and painting, has been colossal.

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I have met with most poetry on trunks; so that I am apt to consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Poetry

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Christians, Christianity

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Giving, Charity

In that fatal word,—howe’er we promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Genius

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Conscience

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Aging, Age

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Letters

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Blessings

A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure—critics are ready-made.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Critics, Criticism

With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

What an antithetical mind!—tenderness, roughness—delicacy, coarseness—sentiment, sensuality—soaring and groveling, dirt and deity—all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Food, Eating

Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

I grow old learning something new every day.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Learning

A lady of a “certain age,” which means certainly aged.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Age, Aging

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Arguments

Indisputably the believers in the gospel have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that, if true, they will have their reward hereafter; and if there be no hereafter, they can but be with the infidel in his eternal sleep, having had the assistance of an exalted hope through life, without subsequent disappointment.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Religion

The lapse of ages changes all things—time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing “about, around, and underneath” man, except man himself.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Change

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Jealousy

It is strange but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Truth, Peculiarity, Oddity

The bloom or blight of all men’s happiness.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Marriage

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Words

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Thoughts, World, Thinking, Thought

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Socialism, Communism, Fresh

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ‘Carpe Diem’ is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds—for who can trust to tomorrow?
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Age

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. ‘Tis women’s whole existence.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Passion, Love

All the fame which ever cheated humanity into higher notions of its own importance would never weigh in my mind against the pure and pious interest which a virtuous being may be pleased to take in my welfare.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
Topics: Goodness

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

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