485 quotes
How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.
Sardanapalus (1821)
For freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
The Giaour (1813)
A great poet belongs to no country; his works are public property, and his Memoirs the inheritance of the public.
Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832)
She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,
Which terminated all.
The Dream (1816)
There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!
The Corsair (1814)
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
The Corsair (1814)
A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure — critics are ready-made.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
The cold in clime are cold in blood,
Their love can scarce deserve the name.
The Giaour (1813)
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.
Sardanapalus (1821)
Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.
The Corsair (1814)
I die — but first I have possessed,
And come what may, I have been blessed.
The Giaour (1813)
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
He left a corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
The Corsair (1814)