Top 127 Quotes by Lord Byron

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

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

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

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