Quotes from Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

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.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks, Already redd'ning in thy guilty cheeks.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

The busy have no time for tears.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!

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!

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone,-- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.