Lord Byron Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Sea Quotes

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sea Quotes

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Land Quotes , Bridges Quotes

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Trying Quotes

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Whispering Quotes , Littles Quotes

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Soul And Body Quotes

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Mind Quotes , Clay Quotes

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Country Quotes , Selfish Quotes

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Change Quotes , Time Quotes

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Stars Quotes , Space Quotes

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Rebel Quotes

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Love Quotes , Pain Quotes

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Pain Quotes , Forever Quotes

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Laughing Quotes

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Unhappy Quotes , Literature Quotes

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Venice Quotes , Earth Quotes

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Vineyards Quotes

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Love Quotes , Friends Quotes

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Fall Quotes , Science Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Farewell Quotes , Sea Quotes

From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Spring Quotes , Home Quotes