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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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Lord Byron

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Lord Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Lord Byron

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Lord Byron

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Lord Byron

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

Lord Byron

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Lord Byron

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love.

Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

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