1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature’s!

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.

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man’s very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress – or a nunnery.

Still from the fount of joy’s delicious springs Some bitter o’er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don’t know any other stipend annexed to it.

A schoolboy’s tale, the wonder of an hour!

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain’s silence, and o’er Glory’s din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man’s conscience is the oracle of God.