A biography for Lord Byronhasn’t been written yet.
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“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.”
“Prolonged endurance tames the bold.”
“He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.”
“Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.”
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
“The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
“For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?”
“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”
“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.”
“For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.”
“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
“Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?”
“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”