Lord Byron Quotes

1788–1824 England

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.

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He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Who loves, raves—'tis youth's frenzy—but the cure
Is bitterer still.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

Whose touch turns hope to dust—the dust we all have trod.

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.

The Corsair (1814)

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

The Curse of Minerva (1811)

Who track the steps of glory to the grave.

Monody on the Death of Sheridan (1816)

Heaven gives its favourites — early death.

With just enough of learning to misquote.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809)

By all that's good and glorious.

Sardanapalus (1821)

While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.

The Age of Bronze (1823)

The heart ran o'er
With silent worship of the great of old!
The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule
Our spirits from their urns.

Manfred (1817)

And if we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
Of him who treasures up a wrong.

Mazeppa (1819)

But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar.

Manfred (1817)

There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue dignify
A woman, so she's good, what does it signify?

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

For most men (till by losing rendered sager)
Will back their own opinions by a wager.

Beppo (1818)

Did man compute
Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er
Such hours 'gainst years of life, say, would he name threescore?

'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange,
Stranger than fiction.

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