Lord Byron Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• 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

• This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by which coals Are safely mined for in the mode he mentions, Tombuctoo travels, voyages to the Poles, Are ways to benefit mankind, as true, Perhaps, as shooting them at Waterloo.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Soul, Age

• Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

  Lord Byron

  Political, Vengeance, Enough

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.900, Delphi Classics

• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

  Lord Byron

  Track, Guilt, Forfeit

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

• The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest of all is John Bull!

  Lord Byron

  Different, Hay, Bulls

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.558, Delphi Classics

• I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

  Lord Byron

  War, Reading, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2656, Delphi Classics

• Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

  Lord Byron

  Heads Or Tails, Axes, Wind

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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