Quotes by Lord Byron

“He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices”

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all thats best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies”

“I always say beauty is only sin deep.”

“Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never”

“Pleasures a sin, and sometimes Sins a pleasure”

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

“The busy have no time for tears.”

“Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.”

“I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

“There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.”

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

“Romances I never read like those I have seen.”

“I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.”

“Be warm, but pure; be amorous, but be chaste.”

“One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, Ill have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”

“If I dont write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”