Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

— Lord Byron

Lord Byron Quotes

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

— Lord Byron

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

— Lord Byron

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

— Lord Byron

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

— Lord Byron

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts – you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

— Lord Byron

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate’s sultry.

— Lord Byron

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

— Lord Byron

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

— Lord Byron
Real

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

— Lord Byron

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

— Lord Byron

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man’s very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

— Lord Byron
Real

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don’t make love till almost obliged.

— Lord Byron

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

— Lord Byron

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

— Lord Byron

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

— Lord Byron

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

— Lord Byron

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

— Lord Byron

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

— Lord Byron

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

— Lord Byron

Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

— Lord Byron
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