Lord Byron Quotes
Lord Byron Quotes. Below is a collection of famous Lord Byron quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by Lord Byron. Share these quotations with your friends and family.
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
By Lord Byron
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.
By Lord Byron
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
By Lord Byron
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
By Lord Byron
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
By 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.
By 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.
By 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.
By Lord Byron
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
By Lord Byron
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
By Lord Byron
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
By Lord Byron
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
By Lord Byron
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
By Lord Byron