Quotes by Lord Byron

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.

— Lord Byron

Love

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

— Lord Byron

Love

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

— Lord Byron

Happiness

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.

— Lord Byron

Love

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

— Lord Byron

Love

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

— Lord Byron

Education

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

— Lord Byron

Love

The heart will break, but broken live on.

— Lord Byron

Love

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

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

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

Fame is the thirst of youth.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

The dew of compassion is a tear.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

— Lord Byron

Love

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

— Lord Byron

Life

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

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

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

— Lord Byron

Love

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

— Lord Byron

Friendship

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

— Lord Byron

Life

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

— Lord Byron

Love