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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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Lord Byron

But 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

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Lord Byron

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Lord Byron

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Lord Byron

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Lord Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Lord Byron

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lord Byron

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Byron

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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