I am ashes where once I was fire...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There i...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must sa...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON We'll Go No More A-roving

So, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the nigh...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slav...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it di...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There i...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's b...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Friendship is love without wings.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Though the day of my Destiny's over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused t...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that ...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very wil...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON This is the patent age of new inventions/ For killing bodies, and saving souls,/ All propagated with...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatio...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit decei...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from retu...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON The best prophet of the future is the past.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society wher...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah gi...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON She walks in beauty like the night.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON When we think we lead we are most led.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very t...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . ...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
GEORGE GORDON BYRON On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd
GEORGE GORDON BYRON All who joy would win
Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
GEORGE GORDON BYRON The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I love not man the less, but nature more
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will s...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The ...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree ...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON But first on earth as vampire sent
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent
Then gastly haun...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON if i dont write to empty my mind, i go mad
GEORGE GORDON BYRON And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON When We Two Parted

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyran...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not ye...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyran...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy w...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year imp...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatso...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage;
The future states...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON From the wreck of the past, which hath perish
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is s...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other pas...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so m...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON When we think we lead we are most led.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of it...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning an...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anyth...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Friendship is Love without his wings!
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woma...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman l...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Who loves, raves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a ti...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fa...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Romances I never read like those I have seen.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I h...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The French courage proceeds from vanity
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but i...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Poetry should only occupy the idle.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or min...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and de...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everythi...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON And after all, what is a lie?
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to br...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hai...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he p...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Critics are already made.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake bu...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it o...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished mys...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In solitude, where we are least alone.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have bre...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past--
For years fleet away with the wings of t...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The good old times -- all times when old are good.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fev...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatio...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in cour...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre --but still it is a grand one....
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Opinions are made to be changed --or how is truth to be got at?
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of th...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON