1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

For what were all these country patriots born? / To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust

For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

The French courage proceeds from vanity