Lord Byron Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The dew of compassion is a tear.”

“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.”

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

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

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

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.”

“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.”

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”

“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.”