Quotes by Lord Byron
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
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.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Let these describe the indescribable.
As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling like dew, upon a thought, producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
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.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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.
O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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.
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
