Quotes by Byron, Lord

"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Byron, Lord on absurdity
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"Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"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."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?"

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable."

Byron, Lord on age and aging   

"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one."

Byron, Lord on debt   

"Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity."

Byron, Lord on decay   

"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."

Byron, Lord on embarrassment   

"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."

Byron, Lord on empire   

"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

Byron, Lord on endurance   

"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."

Byron, Lord on engagement
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"Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss."

Byron, Lord on epitaphs   

"Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it."

Byron, Lord on excuses   

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

Byron, Lord on faith
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"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"Fame is the thirst of youth."

Byron, Lord on fame
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"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me."

Byron, Lord on fame   

"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."

Byron, Lord on fantasy
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"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Byron, Lord on farewells
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"Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star."

Byron, Lord on fate
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"But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."

Byron, Lord on fiction   

"Romances I never read like those I have seen."

Byron, Lord on fiction
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"Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal."

Byron, Lord on fidelity   

"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie."

Byron, Lord on flattery   

"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."

Byron, Lord on flirting   

"Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order."

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

Byron, Lord on food and eating   

"Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind."

Byron, Lord on freedom   

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive -- besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else."

Byron, Lord on gambling   

"I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further."

Byron, Lord on genius
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"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

Byron, Lord on giving
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