Top 127 Quotes by 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.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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

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

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.