A biography for Lord Byronhasn’t been written yet.
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
“Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.”
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
“Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.”
“The best prophet of the future is the past.”
“There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
“It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.”
“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
“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.”
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”
“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
“My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.”
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
“Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.”
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”