What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. – 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
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. – Lord Byron
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? – Lord Byron
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. – Lord Byron
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe – you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. – Lord Byron
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. – Lord Byron
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge. – Lord Byron
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. – Lord Byron
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? – Lord Byron
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. – 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 is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. – Lord Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. – Lord Byron
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. – Lord Byron