Lord Byron Quotes

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

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.

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.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

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

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.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

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

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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

Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.

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

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.

Friendship is Love without his wings!