LORD BYRON QUOTES II

English Romantic poet (1788-1824)

Lord Byron quote

Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

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Manfred


There is 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.

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Childe Harold


Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

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Don Juan


Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead,
And the apparel of the grave.

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The Two Foscari


We are the fools of Time and Terror: Days
Steal on us, and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

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Manfred


Deep Vengeance is the daughter of deep Silence.

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Marino Faliero


I hate all pain,
Given or received; we have enough within us
The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch,
Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

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Sardanapalus


The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more,
As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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Marino Faliero


Tyranny
Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
None rebels except subjects? The prince who
Neglects or violates his trust is more
A brigand than the robber-chief.

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The Two Foscari


Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider.

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


But what is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

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letter, October 28, 1815


There is no passion
More spectral or fantastical than Hate;
Not even its opposite, Love, so peoples air
With phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

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The Two Foscari


She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears,
For women shed and use them at their liking;
But there is something when man's eye appears
Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.

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Don Juan


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

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Don Juan

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Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

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Don Juan


They never fail who die
In a great cause: the block may soak their gore:
Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls--
But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years
Elapse, and others share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts
Which overpower all others, and conduct
The world at last to Freedom.

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Marino Faliero


Joy's recollection is no longer joy,
While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.

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Marino Faliero


Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.

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Don Juan


What is
Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset;
And mortals may be happy to resemble
The Gods but in decay.

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Sardanapalus


Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

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The Two Foscari