1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

I am not now That which I have been.

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; / And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, / When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

The glory and the nothing of a name

I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress