Lord Byron Quotes

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I'll publish right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Lord Byron
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.

Lord Byron
The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Lord Byron
Ave Maria! 'tis the hour of prayer!
Ave Maria! 'tis the hour of love!

Lord Byron
And she for him had given
Her all on earth, and more than all in heaven!

Lord Byron
Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert.

Lord Byron
I only know we loved in vain;
I only feel — farewell! farewell!

Lord Byron
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

Lord Byron
Such is the aspect of this shore;
'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.

Lord Byron
Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
For into a prime minister but change
His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Lord Byron
I've stood upon Achilles' tomb,
And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome.

Lord Byron
Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.

Lord Byron
But time strips our illusions of their hue,
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly, like a snake.

Lord Byron
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

Lord Byron
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?

Lord Byron
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
Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

Lord Byron
Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

Lord Byron
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Lord Byron
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
'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.

Lord Byron
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Lord Byron
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Lord Byron
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Lord Byron
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron