1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Alas! The love of women! it is known to be a lovely and fearful thing!

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? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.