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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.

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

— Lord Byron

Society

All Quotes by Lord Byron

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Happiness

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

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

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

— Lord Byron

Great

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

— Lord Byron

Nature

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Politics

“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

— Lord Byron

God

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

— Lord Byron

Architecture

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron

Love

“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

“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”

— Lord Byron

Art

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

— Lord Byron

Freedom

“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”

— Lord Byron

Trust

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

— Lord Byron

Movingon

“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

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

— Lord Byron

God