Lord Byron Quotes

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Absence – that common cure of love.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.