Lord Byron Quotes

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

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None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

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Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

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One hates an author that's all author.

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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

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I loved my country, and I hated him.

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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

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Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

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So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

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Who then will explain the explanation?

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In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

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