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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.

“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

All Quotes by Lord Byron

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Religion

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Society

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

— Lord Byron

Alone

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

— Lord Byron

Nature

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Friendship

“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

“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

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

— Lord Byron

Wisdom

“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”

— Lord Byron

Change

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

— Lord Byron

Death

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

— Lord Byron

Truth

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

— Lord Byron

Friendship