Lord Byron Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

• I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

  Lord Byron

  Echoes, World, Knees

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 113

• The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Spirit, Worship

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1164, Delphi Classics

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