Lord Byron Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Nature, Travel

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

• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Beautiful, Lonely

• Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Moral, Sometimes, Sin

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 133

• One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

  Lord Byron

  Reading, Knowledge, Needs

• On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

  Lord Byron

  Life, Success, Dance

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto Iii.”

• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

• Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Please Me, Goes On

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Pain, Writing

• There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Farewell, Woods

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

• For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

  Lord Byron

  War, Beer, Animal

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.241, Routledge

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

  Lord Byron

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Grief, Past, Grieving

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I.”

• Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Fate, Men

• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
  For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
  Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Past, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

• I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

  Lord Byron

  Mother, Good Day, Law

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

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