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127 Lord Byron Quotes That You Are Sure To Fall For
Lord Byron was an eminent English politician, poet, nobleman, peer and a prominent figure in the ‘Romantic Movement.’ He remains to be an influential and widely read poet. He is considered to be one of the most august British poets of all times. Some of his most noteworthy works include, ‘She Walks in Beauty,’ ‘Don Juan,’ ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ ‘Hours of Idleness,’ ‘Darkness,’ ‘My Soul is Dark,’ ‘The Prisoner of Chillon’ and various others. He is often described as notorious and flamboyant and was not only famous for his prolific writings but was also renowned for having countless affairs with both men and women and for his other aristocratic excesses. We have rounded some popular thoughts and quotes by Lord Byron that are sure to fascinate you. Go through the interesting and famous quotes and thoughts by Lord Byron that will give you a glimpse of his life.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron
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.
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.
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.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Lord Byron
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
