Lord Byron Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Men, Essence

• I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Seduction, Poor

• ...And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
  For when they happen at a riper age,
  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
  And wonder Providence is not more sage.
  Adversity is the first path to truth:
  He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
  Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
  Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, War, Adversity

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

• 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

• War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

  Lord Byron

  War, Knives, Cry

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

• For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

  Lord Byron

  War, Heart, Eye

  'The Destruction of Sennacherib' (1815) st. 3

• 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

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