Quotes from George Byron

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.

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

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.