Best Byron Quotes

#1. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Gore Vidal

#2. VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant.

Tom Stoppard

#3. All human history attests
That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! -
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

George Gordon Byron

#4. A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called "a fearful gift." The burden was a sadness and despair that could tip into a state of disease. But the gift was a capacity for depth, wisdom - even genius.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#5. I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

Dan Jenkins

#6. So, what do you think? Better than four years with Byron?"

"Are you kidding?" I kept a straight face. "Those were the best days of life.

Rachel E. Carter

#7. I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

Marc Wallice

#8. I saw two beings in the hues of the youth
Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill ... And both were young
and one was beautiful
-The Dream, Canto II
Lord Byron

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron's ideal: the cultured thug.

Jonathan Bowden

#10. I've brought you Byron--always makes things better.

Gail Carriger

#11. Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn't Lord Byron himself said, "The busy have no time for tears"?

Martha Hall Kelly

#12. You can argue with the way things are. You'll lose, but only 100% of the time. - BYRON KATIE

Toni Bernhard

#13. And when we think we lead, we are most led. - Lord Byron, The Two Foscari (1821)

Raine Miller

#14. He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over poetry.

Jane Austen

#15. Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

Matthew Arnold

#16. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#17. Byron's Prometheus becomes symbolic of the human condition in both his mixed divinity and his drive to suffer through the toils of life in a grand effort towards a progressive evolution, whereby the cruel fate of humanity might someday be overcome.

George Gordon Byron