1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

His heart was one of those which most enamour us, / Wax to receive, and marble to retain.

Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life / Into that moral centaur, man and wife?

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse, / Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse?

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.