Lord Byron Quotations

1. The power of thought – the magic of the mind!

2. ’Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in’t.

3. A thousand years may scarce form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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

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

6. For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

7. I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...

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

9. Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

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

11. There is a tide in the affairs of women,
Which, taken at the flood, leads –
God knows where.

12. There’s nought, no doubt, so much
the spirit calms
As rum and true religion.

13. 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.

14. I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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

16. I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

17. Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

18. John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, a carrier who carried his can to his mouth well; he carried so much, and he carried so fast, he could carry no more - so was carried at last; for the liquor he drank, being too much for one, he could not carry off - so he's now carri-on.

19. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

20. I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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

22. One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

23. Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

24. Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

25. 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.

26. Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got at?

27. Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.

28. Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

29. The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

30. Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

31. The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.

32. The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

33. The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.

34. This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

35. Oh! There is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.