Top 127 Quotes by Lord Byron

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

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.

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

The busy have no time for tears.

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.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.