Lord Byron Quotes

There is pleasure in the pathless woods; There is rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is a cheap medicine.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.

I hate things all fiction. There should always be some foundation of fact.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and
swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes.
But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.

Truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

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

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Eat, drink and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews in which i steal,
From all i may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal