Top 450 Lord Byron Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”

— Lord Byron

352. “Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.”

— Lord Byron

353. “Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”

— Lord Byron

354. “It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don’t make love till almost obliged.”

— Lord Byron

355. “Think not I am what I appear.”

— Lord Byron

356. “The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.”

— Lord Byron

357. “A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

— Lord Byron

358. “By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.”

— Lord Byron

359. “Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?”

— Lord Byron

360. “The law of heaven and earth is life for life.”

— Lord Byron

361. “There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.”

— Lord Byron

362. “Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.”

— Lord Byron

363. “Rough Johnson, the great moralist.”

— Lord Byron

364. “I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.”

— Lord Byron

365. “The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.”

— Lord Byron

366. “I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation – they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.”

— Lord Byron

367. “Love rules the camp, the court, the grove – for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.”

— Lord Byron

368. “Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”

— Lord Byron

369. “Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”

— Lord Byron

370. “The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.”

— Lord Byron

371. “That low vice, curiosity!”

— Lord Byron

372. “Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never.”

— Lord Byron

373. “Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.”

— Lord Byron

374. “Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.”

— Lord Byron

375. “The heart ran o’er With silent worship of the great of old! – The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.”

— Lord Byron

376. “A pretty woman is a welcome guest.”

— Lord Byron

377. “By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.”

— Lord Byron

378. “Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates – but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.”

— Lord Byron

379. “It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.”

— Lord Byron

380. “The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man’s sin than a school boy’s volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.”

— Lord Byron

381. “Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature’s!”

— Lord Byron

382. “I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people – being always excited.”

— Lord Byron

383. “Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”

— Lord Byron

384. “Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.”

— Lord Byron

385. “For Earth is but a tombstone.”

— Lord Byron

386. “I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour’s gone by When Albion’s lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.”

— Lord Byron

387. “None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess’d A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.”

— Lord Byron

388. “Eternity forbids thee to forget.”

— Lord Byron

389. “Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; – all this comes of Authorship.”

— Lord Byron

390. “Poetry should only occupy the idle.”

— Lord Byron

391. “I can’t but say it is an awkward sight To see one’s native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.”

— Lord Byron

392. “Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”

— Lord Byron

393. “Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.”

— Lord Byron

394. “I speak not of men’s creeds – they rest between Man and his Maker.”

— Lord Byron

395. “Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-’t is gone, and all is gray.”

— Lord Byron

396. “Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o’er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company – the gout or stone.”

— Lord Byron

397. “But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man’s very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.”

— Lord Byron

398. “Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.”

— Lord Byron

399. “One hates an author that’s all author.”

— Lord Byron

400. “To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

— Lord Byron