Lord Byron Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

  Lord Byron

  Should Have, Tyrants, Want

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.243, Delphi Classics

• Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

  Lord Byron

  Military, Tyranny, Worst

• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

• 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

• Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

  Lord Byron

  Tyrants, Rebel, Neglect

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1436, Delphi Classics

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