Lord Byron Quotes

• ‘T is strange,–but true; for Truth is always Strange– Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange!

  Lord Byron

  Topics in Truth

• The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

  Lord Byron

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Sensation, Pain

• And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘Tis that I may not weep.

  Lord Byron

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Weep

• Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

  Lord Byron

• Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

  Lord Byron

• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

  Lord Byron

• Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

  Lord Byron

• Who loves, raves.

  Lord Byron

• Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

  Lord Byron

• When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

  Lord Byron

• What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

  Lord Byron

• What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

  Lord Byron

• We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

  Lord Byron

• To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

  Lord Byron

• ‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in ‘t.

  Lord Byron

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

  Lord Byron

• Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

  Lord Byron

• Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

  Lord Byron

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Freedom, Reason

• 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

• They never fail who die in a great cause.

  Lord Byron

  Topics in Death

Lord Byron (136)

Birth:	22nd January, 1788
Death:	19th April, 1824
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Politician

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