Top 500 Lord Byron Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.”

— Lord Byron

452. “Grieving, if aught inanimate e’er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

455. “And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.”

— Lord Byron

456. “I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”

— Lord Byron

457. “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

458. “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

459. “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

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

463. “The poetry of speech.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

467. “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

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

— Lord Byron

469. “Critics are already made.”

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

473. “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

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

— Lord Byron

475. “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

476. “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

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

— Lord Byron

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

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

— Lord Byron

482. “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

483. “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

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

— Lord Byron

485. “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

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

— Lord Byron

491. “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

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

— Lord Byron

493. “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

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

— Lord Byron

495. “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.”

— Lord Byron

496. “Fills The air around with beauty.”

— Lord Byron

497. “But stories somehow lengthen when begun.”

— Lord Byron

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. “I could love anything on Earth that appeared to wish it.”

— Lord Byron