1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

The dew of compassion is a tear.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s