1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Think not I am what I appear.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

For Freedom's battle once begun, / Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, / Though baffled oft is ever won.

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.