79 Quotes By Lord Byron


This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron on age

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron on age

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron on alone

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron on alone

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron on alone

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron on architecture

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron on art

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron on best

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron on best

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron on business

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron on change

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron on death

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron on death

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron on fear

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 on fear

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron on freedom

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron on friendship

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron on friendship

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron on future

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron on god