Quotes by Lord Byron

“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”

“This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”

“Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.”

“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”

“Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, / And fevers into false creation.”

“Mans love is of mans life a part; it is a womans whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“Truth is always strange”

“All is to be feared where all is to be lost”

“Thinkst thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs”

“I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath!”

“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”

“What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”

“I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”

“Fools are my theme; let satire be my song.”

“The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.”

When Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter And proved it - twas no matter what he said.

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 mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.

I am not now That which I have been.

A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.