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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