| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“Thou who hast
The fatal gist of beauty.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 42)
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“Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow,
Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth,
Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow,
As if her veins ran lightning.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 61)
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“A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XV, st. 43)
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“She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”
Beauty Quotes Source: She Walks in Beauty
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“The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need
Of aid from them--she was the Universe.”
Darkness Quotes Source: Darkness
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“Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity,"
Most modern preachers say the same, or show it
By their examples of true Christianity:
In short, all know, or very short may know it.”
Vanity Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VII, st. 6)
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“Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant
Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn
Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,
Not practise!”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. 34)
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“Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem but always what you see.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 86)
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“The nympholepsy of some fond despair.”
Despair Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 115)
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“A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust.”
Government Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 84)
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“Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.”
Character Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VI, st. 7)
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“So well she acted all and every part
By turns--with that vivacious versatility,
Which many people take for want of heart.
They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility,
A thing of temperament and not of art,
Though seeming so, from its supposed facility;
And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest
Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.”
Character Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XVI, st. 97)
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“With more capacity for love than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.”
Character Quotes Source: Lara (canto I, st. 18)
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“I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies!
If captains the remark, or critics, make,
Why they lie also--under a mistake.”
Lying Quotes Source: Don Juan
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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.”
Lying Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 37)
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“Like the lost pleiad seen no more below.”
Stars Quotes Source: Beppo (st. 14)
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“And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.”
Democracy Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. XXIV)
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“Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart--
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--
To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),”
Liberty Quotes Source: Sonnet--Introductory to Prisoner of Chillon
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“While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.”
Washington, george Quotes Source: Age of Bronze (st. 5)
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“Where may the wearied eye repose,
When gazing on the Great;
Where neither guilty glory glows,
Nor despicable state?
Yes--one the first, the last, the best,
The Cincinnatus of the West
Whom envy dared not hate,
Bequeathed the name of Washington
To make man blush; there was but one.”
Washington, george Quotes Source: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, referring to George Washington
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“Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three,
To make a new Thermopylae!”
Soldiers Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 86)
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“His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven,
His back to earth, his face to heaven.”
Soldiers Quotes Source: Giaour (l. 675)
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“My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea:
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here's a double health to thee!”
Toasts Quotes Source: to Thomas Moore
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“Weren't the last drop in the well,
As I gasp'd upon the brink,
Ere my fainting spirit fell,
'Tis to thee that I would drink.”
Toasts Quotes Source: To Thomas Moore
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“Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
Who please, the more because they preach in vain,--
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
Wine and spirits Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 178)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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