Lord Byron Literature Quotations

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

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

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

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.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

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

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

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

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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