Lord Byron Quotes - Page 24

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• Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

  Lord Byron

  Men, May, Graves

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Sea, Sky

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

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• This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

  Lord Byron

  Solitude

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• A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Hackney, Enough

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 63

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• It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Immortality, Said

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• Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

  Lord Byron

  Wise, Men, Thieves

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1645, Delphi Classics

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• And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

  Lord Byron

  Standards

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.126, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• And those who saw, it did surprise, Such drops could fall from human eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Eye, Saws

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

  Lord Byron

  Views, Mind, Break Out

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• The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

  Lord Byron

  Wall, Wine, Cities

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

  Lord Byron

  Thrones, Slave, Ends

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Miserable, Poet

  "Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron". Book by Thomas Medwin, 1823.

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• So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Greed, Vices

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 216

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