Lord Byron Quotes
An Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism.
(1788 - 1824)
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
[Childhood]
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A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.
[Kiss]
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour.
[Wonder]
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
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Absence - that common cure of love.
[Absence]
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
[Adversity]
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Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
[Youth]
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
[Happiness]
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
[America]
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And after all, what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
[Lying]
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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