1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.

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.

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine – A sad, sour sober beverage – by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t’other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

I have a passion for the name of “Mary,” For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one’s partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me – yet I sometimes long for it.