1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

The castle crag of Drachenfels / Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine.

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored

Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle