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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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Lord Byron

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Lord Byron

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears.

Lord Byron

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Lord Byron

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Lord Byron

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Lord Byron

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord Byron

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Lord Byron

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Lord Byron

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Lord Byron

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

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