Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Lord Byron

Lord Byron English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824)


Lord Byron -
- With just enough of learning to misquote.

Lord Byron -
- [Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron -
- Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron -
- And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.

Lord Byron -
- Sweet is revenge - especially to women.

Lord Byron - last words
- Goodnight

Lord Byron - Don Juan
- Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron -
- Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron -
- Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron -
- On with the dance! Let joy be undefined!

Lord Byron - Don Juan
- Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron -
- How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.

Lord Byron -
- All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Lord Byron - Stanzas to Augusta
- In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

Lord Byron -
- Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

Lord Byron -
- But 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 - Letter to Thomas Moore
- 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 -
- For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause for breath,
And love itself have rest.

Lord Byron -
- The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

Lord Byron -
- A pretty woman is a welcome guest.