Lord Byron Quotes - Page 14

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• What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

  Lord Byron

  Death, Sunset, Decay

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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• That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Insane, Delight

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

  Lord Byron

  Three, Earth, Remnants

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

  Lord Byron

  Political, Consistency, Politics

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.3005, Delphi Classics

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• Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Faults, Hated

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• [My advice] will one day be found
  With other relics of 'a former world,'
  When this world shall be former, underground,
  Thrown topsy-turvy, twisted, crisped, and curled,
  Baked, fried or burnt, turned inside-out, or drowned,
  Like all the worlds before, which have been hurled
  First out of, and then back again to Chaos,
  The Superstratum which will overlay us.

  Lord Byron

  Change, Science, Advice

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.212

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Tyrants, Luxury

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• None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Self, Tears, Claims

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 24

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Effort, Literature

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Reality, Adoration

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

  Lord Byron

  Winning, Despair, Might

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

  Lord Byron

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Smooth

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1326, Delphi Classics

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• The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

  Lord Byron

  Feelings, Mind, Desert

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.773, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

  Lord Byron

  Self, Hypocrisy, Form

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• I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Wedding, Men

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• Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

  Lord Byron

  Daughter, Heart, House

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Real, Men

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.423, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Spring, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

  Lord Byron

  Tired, Men, World

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Steps, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Owl, Midnight

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.

  Lord Byron

  Giving, People, Romance

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Third”

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