1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

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.

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily ""tea is ready,"" Smug coterie and literary lady

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.