Top 500 Lord Byron Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.”

— Lord Byron

452. “And Mocha’s berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.”

— Lord Byron

453. “Good but rarely came from good advice.”

— Lord Byron

454. “Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.”

— Lord Byron

455. “No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.”

— Lord Byron

456. “Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.”

— Lord Byron

457. “Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.”

— Lord Byron

458. “One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.”

— Lord Byron

459. “I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.”

— Lord Byron

460. “Had sigh’d to many, though he loved but one.”

— Lord Byron

461. “What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history’s purchased page to call them great?”

— Lord Byron

462. “Critics are already made.”

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463. “It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”

— Lord Byron

464. “The poetry of speech.”

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465. “Romances paint at full length people’s wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.”

— Lord Byron

466. “They grieved for those who perished with the cutter, and also for the biscuit casks and butter.”

— Lord Byron

467. “I loved my country, and I hated him.”

— Lord Byron

468. “Where are the forms the sculptor’s soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?”

— Lord Byron

469. “For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady’s hands.”

— Lord Byron

470. “Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.”

— Lord Byron

471. “The lapse of ages changes all things – time – language – the earth – the bounds of the sea – the stars of the sky, and everything ‘about, around, and underneath’ man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.”

— Lord Byron

472. “To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!”

— Lord Byron

473. “That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane.”

— Lord Byron

474. “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.”

— Lord Byron

475. “And Doubt and Discord step ’twixt thine and thee.”

— Lord Byron

476. “Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.”

— Lord Byron

477. “Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?”

— Lord Byron

478. “He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”

— Lord Byron

479. “Thy decay’s still impregnate with divinity.”

— Lord Byron

480. “Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.”

— Lord Byron

481. “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.”

— Lord Byron

482. “This is to be along; this, this is solitude!”

— Lord Byron

483. “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.”

— Lord Byron

484. “Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.”

— Lord Byron

485. “Composing a letter is a way to combine solitude with good company.”

— Lord Byron

486. “But for the present gentle reader! And still gentler purchaser.”

— Lord Byron

487. “The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.”

— Lord Byron

488. “And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won’t flatter.”

— Lord Byron

489. “I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.”

— Lord Byron

490. “But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.”

— Lord Byron

491. “For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear. And now I’m in the world alone, Upon the wide, wide sea; But why should I for others groan, When none will sigh for me? Perchance my dog will whine in vain Till fed by stranger hands; But long ere I come back again He’d tear me where he stands.”

— Lord Byron

492. “Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue’s name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature’s sternest painter, yet the best.”

— Lord Byron

493. “They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.”

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494. “Just as I had formed a tolerable establishment my travels commenced, and on my return I find all to do over again; my former flock were all scattered; some married, not before it was needful.”

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495. “Fills The air around with beauty.”

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496. “But stories somehow lengthen when begun.”

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497. “She is so good a person, that – that – in short, I wish I was a better.”

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498. “It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts – you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”

— Lord Byron

499. “Do proper homage to thine idol’s eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.”

— Lord Byron

500. “Her guardian angel had given up his garrison.”

— Lord Byron