Lord Byron Quotes - Page 17

Quotes about:

• Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Heart, Creation

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

  Lord Byron

  Vanity, May, Example

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.22, Gerald Duckworth & Co

  5 Copy quote

• Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

  Lord Byron

  Country, Sight, Land

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

  20 Copy quote

• The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

  Lord Byron

  Simple, Example, Wordsworth

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 241 (of Wordsworth)

  5 Copy quote

• Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Literature, May

  4 Copy quote

• Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Evil, Clay

  4 Copy quote

• It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Ideas, Giving

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

  7 Copy quote

• The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Heart, Voice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

  Lord Byron

  Freedom, Blow, Would Be

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

  Lord Byron

  Eye, Dear Ones, Phrases

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

  4 Copy quote

• I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Names, Magic

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.126, Sheba Blake Publishing

  7 Copy quote

• Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

  Lord Byron

  Sun, Labor, Stills

  'The Corsair' (1814) canto 1, st. 8

  4 Copy quote

• As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

  Lord Byron

  Confidence, Believe, June

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

• Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Ivy, Names

  'Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa' November 1821

  4 Copy quote

• I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

  Lord Byron

  Long, Doubt, Quiet

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.37, Gerald Duckworth & Co

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Art, Son

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

  4 Copy quote

• Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

  Lord Byron

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Don Juan canto 1, st. 83 (written 1818)

  4 Copy quote

• Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Art, Majestic

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

  Lord Byron

  Age, Towers, Marathon

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.52, Sheba Blake Publishing

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

  Lord Byron

  Endurance, Inequality

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.997, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  Lord Byron

  Hero, Writing, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

• When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

  Lord Byron

  Mind, Bishops, Matter

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 11, st. 1

  4 Copy quote

• My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

Page 17 of 24

First

← Prev

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin