Quotes by Lord Byron

About Lord Byron:

George Gordon Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric She Walks in Beauty.
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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

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Lord Byron

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

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Lord Byron

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Lord Byron

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Lord Byron

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Lord Byron

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

Lord Byron

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Lord Byron

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Lord Byron

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Lord Byron

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Lord Byron

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Lord Byron

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Lord Byron

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Lord Byron

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Lord Byron

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Lord Byron

Author Bio

  • NameLord Byron
  • DescriptionBritish poet
  • AliasesGeorge Gordon Byron; George Gordon Noel; 6th Baron Byron
  • BornJanuary 22, 1788
  • DiedApril 19, 1824
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Politician; Playwright; Autobiographer
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society