Top 500 Lord Byron Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The power of thought is the magic of the mind.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

53. “Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

54. “My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men’s have grown from sudden fears.”

— Lord Byron

55. “Heaven gives its favourites-early death.”

— Lord Byron

56. “Till taught by pain, men know not water’s worth.”

— Lord Byron

57. “Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”

— Lord Byron

58. “Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word’s enough to raise mankind to kill.”

— Lord Byron

59. “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”

— Lord Byron

60. “It is when we think we lead that we are most led.”

— Lord Byron

61. “A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”

— Lord Byron

62. “If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.”

— Lord Byron

63. “The dew of compassion is a tear.”

— Lord Byron

64. “My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!”

— Lord Byron

65. “All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”

— Lord Byron

66. “Like to the apples on the Dead Sea’s shore, All ashes to the taste.”

— Lord Byron

67. “What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!”

— Lord Byron

68. “Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.”

— Lord Byron

69. “Liberty – eternal spirit of the chainless mind.”

— Lord Byron

70. “I am ashes where once I was fire...”

— Lord Byron

71. “The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”

— Lord Byron

72. “Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

— Lord Byron

73. “Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.”

— Lord Byron

74. “A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.”

— Lord Byron

75. “To have joy, one must share it.”

— Lord Byron

76. “Of religion I know nothing – at least, in its favor.”

— Lord Byron

77. “You should have a softer pillow than my heart.”

— Lord Byron

78. “Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.”

— Lord Byron

79. “Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.”

— Lord Byron

80. “Life is too short for chess.”

— Lord Byron

81. “Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”

— Lord Byron

82. “Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”

— Lord Byron

83. “Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!”

— Lord Byron

84. “Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!”

— Lord Byron

85. “Come what may, I have been blest.”

— Lord Byron

86. “A change came o’er the spirit of my dream.”

— Lord Byron

87. “Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.”

— Lord Byron

88. “Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”

— Lord Byron

89. “I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”

— Lord Byron

90. “But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.”

— Lord Byron

91. “Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.”

— Lord Byron

92. “He makes a solitude, and calls it – peace!”

— Lord Byron

93. “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

— Lord Byron

94. “I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”

— Lord Byron

95. “When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls – the World.”

— Lord Byron

96. “You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”

— Lord Byron

97. “No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.”

— Lord Byron

98. “Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.”

— Lord Byron

99. “What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”

— Lord Byron

100. “Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O’er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.”

— Lord Byron