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Lord Byron

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Lord Byron (1788–1824) was an English poet and leading figure of the Romantic movement. His works — including *Don Juan* and *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage* — combined passionate emotion with biting satire. Byron's adventurous life and magnetic personality made him the archetype of the Romantic hero and one of the most celebrated poets in English literature.

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”

— Lord Byron

God

All Quotes by Lord Byron

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

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

— Lord Byron

Age

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”

— Lord Byron

Great

“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”

— Lord Byron

Death

“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.”

— Lord Byron

Jealousy

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

— Lord Byron

Politics

“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”

— Lord Byron

Alone

“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”

— Lord Byron

Happiness

“Who loves, raves.”

— Lord Byron

Love

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”

— Lord Byron

Best

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love

“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”

— Lord Byron

Society

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

— Lord Byron

Great

“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”

— Lord Byron

Fear

“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”

— Lord Byron

God

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”

— Lord Byron

Knowledge

“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”

— Lord Byron

Freedom

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

— Lord Byron

Life

“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.”

— Lord Byron

Business