Quotes by Byron, Lord

"Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!"

Byron, Lord on time   

"I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring."

Byron, Lord on travel   

"I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us."

Byron, Lord on travel   

"Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."

Byron, Lord on truth   

"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."

Byron, Lord on tyranny   

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

Byron, Lord on vice   

"The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch."

Byron, Lord on wives   

"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."

Byron, Lord on women   

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

Byron, Lord on words
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"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."

Byron, Lord on world   

"Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; -- all this comes of Authorship."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing   

"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing
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"In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing   

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing
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"No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving."

Byron, Lord on absence   

"So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout."

Byron, Lord on adolescence   

"What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry."

Byron, Lord on adultery   

"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."

Byron, Lord on adventure
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"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."

Byron, Lord on adversity   

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

Byron, Lord on adversity   

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Byron, Lord on christians and christianity   

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

Byron, Lord on circumstance   

"This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description."

Byron, Lord on colleges and universities   

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

Byron, Lord on compatibility   

"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"

Byron, Lord on science   

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."

Byron, Lord on contentment   

"What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!"

Byron, Lord on contradiction   

"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"

Byron, Lord on cosmos   

"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor."

Byron, Lord on credit   

"Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!"

Byron, Lord on cries and crying   

"The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."

Byron, Lord on cries and crying   

"A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made."

Byron, Lord on criticism   

"Critics are already made."

Byron, Lord on criticism   

"That low vice, curiosity!"

Byron, Lord on curiosity   

"For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest."

Byron, Lord on death   

"I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust."

Byron, Lord on death   

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

Byron, Lord on death
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"Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried "

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