Quotes by Lord Byron

A long long kiss a kiss of youth and love.

When we think we lead we most are led.

I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping Dirty and dusty but as wide as eye Could reach with here and there a sail just skipping In sight then lost amidst the forestry Of masts a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy A huge dun cupola like a fools-cap crown On a fools head - and there is London Town.

Mans love is of mans life a thing apart Tis womans whole existence.

And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

He was the mildest mannerd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

I love not man the less but nature more.

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingales high note is heard It is the hour when lovers vows Seem sweet in every whisperd word.

The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.

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.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Cervantes smiled Spains chivalry away.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

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

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.