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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.

“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

All Quotes by Lord Byron

“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

— Lord Byron

Great

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

— Lord Byron

Society

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

— Lord Byron

Future

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

— Lord Byron

Friendship

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

— Lord Byron

Death

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Happiness

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

— Lord Byron

Great

“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”

— Lord Byron

Happiness

“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”

— Lord Byron

Age

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

— Lord Byron

Hope

“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

— Lord Byron

Nature

“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

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

— Lord Byron

Death

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love