1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

The world is a bundle of hay, / Mankind are the asses who pull; / Each tugs it a different way, / And the greatest of all is John Bull.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.