Top 500 Lord Byron Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

— Lord Byron

402. “That low vice, curiosity!”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

405. “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

406. “For Earth is but a tombstone.”

— Lord Byron

407. “Such hath it been – shall be – beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

412. “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

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

— Lord Byron

414. “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

415. “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

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

423. “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

424. “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

425. “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

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

— Lord Byron

427. “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

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

— Lord Byron

429. “Poetry should only occupy the idle.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

437. “But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise, – Death to his publisher, to him ’tis sport.”

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

439. “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

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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442. “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

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

— Lord Byron

444. “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

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Lord Byron

449. “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

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

— Lord Byron