Lord Byron Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Lord Byron

  Evil, Literature, Mystery

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Mad, Mind

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Truth, Fiction

  Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

• And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Sin, Atonement

  "Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron" (Illustrated),

• I love not man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Men, Earth Day

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Found, Duty

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

  Lord Byron

  Idols, People, Literature

• Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Hate, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 4.

• Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Thinking, Dust

• Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Country, Patriotic

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

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Literature, Sincere

• Fame is the thirst of youth.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Youth, Fame

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.63, Routledge

• 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?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Passion, Earthquakes

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

• The busy have no time for tears.

  Lord Byron

  Time, Sorrow, Tears

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

• It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Believe, Sleep, Men

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

  Lord Byron

  Doubt, Religion, Literature

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 34

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

  Lord Byron

  School, Men, Two

• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Snakes

• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

  Lord Byron

  Jealousy, Hate, Ambition

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Atoms, Useless

• A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

  Lord Byron

  Drinking, Food, Salad

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.12, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Power, Common Sense

• It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Ideas, Giving

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  Lord Byron

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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

  Lord Byron

  Unhappy, Literature, Sometimes

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