Lord Byron Quotes About Literature
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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