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Lord Byron Quotes


One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

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

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

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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

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

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

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

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

The busy have no time for tears.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

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

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

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.