1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?'

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Frienship is eros...without wings

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge / Is for a flying enemy.