Author: Lord Byron

Quotes

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

- Lord Byron

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

- Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

- 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.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

- Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

- Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

- Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

- Lord Byron

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

- Lord Byron

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