Top 500 Lord Byron Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The Cardinal is at his wit’s end – it is true that he had not far to go.”

— Lord Byron

402. “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

403. “The Scene of the Drama is amongst the Higher Alps – partly in the Castle of Manfred, and partly in the Mountains.”

— Lord Byron

404. “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

405. “A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

407. “I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

409. “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

410. “So much alarmed that she is quite alarming.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

412. “I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”

— Lord Byron

413. “Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .”

— Lord Byron

414. “This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

417. “I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.”

— Lord Byron

418. “I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me – I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

420. “With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth – sea alike – our world within our arms.”

— Lord Byron

421. “Romances I ne’er read like those I have seen.”

— Lord Byron

422. “My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

424. “It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”

— Lord Byron

425. “If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.”

— Lord Byron

426. “For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

428. “Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.”

— Lord Byron

429. “Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.”

— Lord Byron

430. “I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.”

— Lord Byron

431. “Poetry should only occupy the idle.”

— Lord Byron

432. “A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.”

— Lord Byron

433. “Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.”

— Lord Byron

434. “Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!”

— Lord Byron

435. “We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?”

— Lord Byron

436. “That famish’d people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.”

— Lord Byron

437. “I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”

— Lord Byron

438. “Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.”

— Lord Byron

439. “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

440. “Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

442. “Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.”

— Lord Byron

443. “I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.”

— Lord Byron

444. “Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.”

— Lord Byron

445. “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

446. “Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.”

— Lord Byron

447. “Go let thy less than woman’s hand Assume the distaff not the brand.”

— Lord Byron

448. “A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”

— Lord Byron

449. “In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.”

— Lord Byron

450. “Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.”

— Lord Byron