Lord Byron Quotes

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"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it."

"The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!"

"The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"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 roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more."
Nature

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."

"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."

"Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen."

"The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself."

"To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."

"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."

"A wise man more than laughter from a dunce."

"In solitude, where we are least alone."

"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."