Top 500 Lord Byron Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

— Lord Byron

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2. “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

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3. “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”

— Lord Byron

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4. “In solitude, where we are least alone.”

— Lord Byron

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5. “A drop of ink may make a million think.”

— Lord Byron

6. “Self praise is no praise at all.”

— Lord Byron

7. “The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

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8. “I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

— Lord Byron

9. “Armenian is the language to speak with God.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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11. “If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

— Lord Byron

12. “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

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13. “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

14. “I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”

— Lord Byron

15. “So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom’d for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.”

— Lord Byron

16. “My altars are the mountains and the ocean.”

— Lord Byron

17. “Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron

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18. “I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

20. “Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?”

— Lord Byron

21. “The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.”

— Lord Byron

22. “For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!”

— Lord Byron

23. “In secret we met – In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? – With silence and tears.”

— Lord Byron

24. “Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.”

— Lord Byron

25. “The busy have no time for tears.”

— Lord Byron

26. “There is pleasure in the pathless woods.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

29. “We of the craft are all crazy.”

— Lord Byron

30. “The best prophet of the future is the past.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

32. “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

33. “Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.”

— Lord Byron

34. “Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.”

— Lord Byron

35. “When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.”

— Lord Byron

36. “I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.”

— Lord Byron

37. “Yes! Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

39. “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”

— Lord Byron

40. “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean.”

— Lord Byron

41. “There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

— Lord Byron

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42. “I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me – yet I sometimes long for it.”

— Lord Byron

43. “The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good.”

— Lord Byron

44. “A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”

— Lord Byron

45. “My native land, good night!”

— Lord Byron

46. “It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”

— Lord Byron

47. “Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.”

— Lord Byron

48. “What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”

— Lord Byron

49. “Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”

— Lord Byron

50. “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.”

— Lord Byron