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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

“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”

— Lord Byron

Religion

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

— Lord Byron

Freedom

“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”

— 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

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

— Lord Byron

Best

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Trust

“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Great

“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

“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

“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

“Who loves, raves.”

— Lord Byron

Love

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

— Lord Byron

Movingon

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

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

— Lord Byron

Death

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

— Lord Byron

Society