Lord Byron

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

British poet.

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• Actions are our epochs.
  • Source:Manfred

• He who surpasses or subdues mankind
  Must look down on the hate of those below.
  
  • Source:Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
  Sadder than low-songs on the midnight blast,
  Is that portentous phrase, I told you so.
  • Source:Don Juan

• A man must take his time for any trade,
  Save censure, critics all are ready-made.
  • Source:Don Juan

• With just enough of learning to misquote.
  • Source:English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 66

• Maid of Athens, ere we part,
  Give, oh give me back my heart!
  • Source:Maid of Athens

• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
  And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 9

• The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 6

• Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 23

• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth!
  Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 73

• A thousand years scarce serve to form a state:
  An hour may lay it in the dust.
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 84

• Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 1

• My native land, good night!
  • Source:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 13

• As the liberty lads o'er the sea
  Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
  So we, boys, we
  Shall die fighting or live free,
  And down with all kings but King Ludd!
  • Source:Song for the Luddites

• "Is [sex] not life? Is it not the thing?"
  • Marianne Hunter (ed.), Sex: A Book of Quotations, Barnes & Noble Books, 2003. ISBN 0-7607-4072-0

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"Mad, bad and dangerous to know" ~ Lady Caroline Lamb

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