Quotes by Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

The good old times - all times when old are good.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

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

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Though sages may pour out their wisdoms treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.