1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

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.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.