| 349 Famous Quotes by Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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“Think not I am what I appear.”
Appearance Quotes Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, sc. 12)
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“Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong,
Compose at once a slipper and a song;
So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,
Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 751)
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“May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill,
And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!
While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes,
And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.”
Tailors Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 781)
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“Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things that still remain,
Than thus remember thee.”
Memory Quotes Source: And Thou art Dead as Young and Fair
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“And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod,
Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 125)
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“Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 17)
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“I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse--borne away with every breath.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act IV, sc. 1)
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“For I am a weed,
Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,
Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.”
Destiny Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 2)
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“Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.”
Fate Quotes Source: To Thomas Moore (st. 2)
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“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed!
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”
Results Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 10)
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“Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Manfred (act I, sc. 1, l. 62)
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“I love the language, that soft bastard Latin,
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.”
Linguists Quotes Source: Beppo (st. 44)
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“Such parting break the heart they fondly hope to heal.”
Parting Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 10)
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“Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.”
Parting Quotes Source: Fare Thee Well
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“Let's not unman each other--part at once;
All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
Else they make an eternity of moments,
And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.”
Parting Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act V, sc. 1)
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“We two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years.”
Parting Quotes Source: When We Two Parted
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“Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--
Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?
Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?
Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?
It may be for years and it may be forever;
Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?”
Parting Quotes Source: When We Two Parted
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“For talk six times with the same single lady,
And you may get the wedding dress ready.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 59)
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“There was no great disparity of years,
Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,
They moved like stars united in their spheres,
Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,
Where mingled and yet separate appears
The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd
Through the serene and placid glassy deep,
Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 87)
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“So sweet the blush of bashfulness,
E'en pity scarce can wish it less!”
Blushes Quotes Source: Bride of Abydos (canto 1, st. 8)
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“Blushed like the waves of hell.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Devil's Drive (st. 5)
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“'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so
fast,
But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Stanzas for Music
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“Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Stanzas to Her who can Best Understand Them (st. 12)
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“Brave men were living before Agamemnon.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 5)
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“The truly brave,
When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--
A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods
Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,
Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods
The rugged tree unto the summer wind,
Compassion breathes along the savage mind.”
Bravery Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 106)
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Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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