For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? -Lord Byron Patriotism
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. -Lord Byron Wisdom
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. -Lord Byron Knowledge
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. -Lord Byron Jealousy
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. -Lord Byron Politics
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 Alone
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 Smile
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. -Lord Byron Poetry
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. -Lord Byron Sad
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. -Lord Byron Society
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. -Lord Byron Relationship
