Top 450 Lord Byron Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “The very best of vineyards is the cellar.”

— Lord Byron

102. “This is the age of oddities let loose.”

— Lord Byron

103. “What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”

— Lord Byron

104. “Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

106. “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

107. “The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole – And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

109. “Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!”

— Lord Byron

110. “I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

112. “I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.”

— Lord Byron

113. “The thorns which I have reap’d are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”

— Lord Byron

114. “Though the day of my Destiny ’s over, And the star of my Fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults which so many could find.”

— Lord Byron

115. “Despair and Genius are too oft connected.”

— Lord Byron

116. “Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!”

— Lord Byron

117. “In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.”

— Lord Byron

118. “The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains – beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.”

— Lord Byron

119. “A thirst for gold, The beggar’s vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.”

— Lord Byron

120. “Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!”

— Lord Byron

121. “There’s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.”

— Lord Byron

122. “The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.”

— Lord Byron

123. “Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.”

— Lord Byron

124. “I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”

— Lord Byron

125. “Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown’d him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.”

— Lord Byron

126. “Man marks the earth with ruin – his control stops with the shore.”

— Lord Byron

127. “The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.”

— Lord Byron

128. “Sweet is revenge-especially to women.”

— Lord Byron

129. “Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”

— Lord Byron

130. “Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister.”

— Lord Byron

131. “The devil hath not, in all his quiver’s choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.”

— Lord Byron

132. “History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”

— Lord Byron

133. “The English winter – ending in July to recommence in August.”

— Lord Byron

134. “I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.”

— Lord Byron

135. “Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.”

— Lord Byron

136. “On with the dance! let joy be unconfin’d No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

138. “I see before me the gladiator lie.”

— Lord Byron

139. “They never fail who die in a great cause.”

— Lord Byron

140. “To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”

— Lord Byron

141. “Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!”

— Lord Byron

142. “This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

144. “Happiness was born a twin.”

— Lord Byron

145. “There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

— Lord Byron

146. “What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”

— Lord Byron

147. “Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t’other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.”

— Lord Byron

148. “Absence – that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

149. “There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.”

— Lord Byron

150. “Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.”

— Lord Byron