1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

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

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

The spirit burning but unbent, / May writhe, rebel - the weak alone repent!

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think