Top 100 George Gordon Quotes
#1. There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
George Gordon Byron
#3. Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
George Gordon Byron
#4. But pomp and power alone are woman's care,
And where these are light Eros finds a feere;
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
George Gordon Byron
#5. Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn.
George Gordon Byron
#7. I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
George Gordon Byron
#10. Oh pleasure, you're indeed a pleasant thing, / Although one must be damned for you no doubt. / I make a resolution every spring / Of reformation, ere the year run out.
George Gordon Byron
#11. If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
George Gordon Byron
#12. In quiet we had learn'd to dwell-
Myvery chains and I grew friends,
So much a long communion tends-
To make us what we are:-even I
Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
George Gordon Byron
#13. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
George Gordon Byron
#14. There' s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,
When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay.
George Gordon Byron
#15. Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
George Gordon Byron
#16. Some have accused me of a strange design
Against the creed and morals of this land,
And trace it in this poem every line:
I don't pretend that I quite understand
My meaning when I would be very fine;
But the fact is that I have nothing planned ...
George Gordon Byron
#17. There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.
George Gordon Byron
#18. Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
George Gordon Byron
#21. Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
George Gordon Byron
#23. Forty? Fifty?" Elizabeth asked. George
Rose Gordon
#24. But unlike the person with exquisite taste in painting or perfume, the movie nerd is classless as well. Grasping the genius of Russ Meyer or George Romero or Herschell Gordon Lewis carries no cultural cachet and gets no one laid, believe me.
David Gordon
#26. He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.
George Gordon Byron
#28. The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.
George Gordon Byron
#29. Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.
George Gordon Byron
#31. So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright.
George Gordon Byron
#32. Love in full life and length, not love ideal,
No, nor ideal beauty, that fine name,
But something better still, so very real ...
George Gordon Byron
#33. It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling, Nor gratify my thousands swelling thoughts with knowledge, Nor allay my thousand fears of death and life.
George Gordon Byron
#34. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
George Gordon Byron
#35. Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
George Gordon Byron
#36. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.
George Gordon Byron
#39. Oh! Many a time and oft had Harold loved, or dream'd he'd loved since Rapture is a dream.
George Gordon Byron
#40. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
George Gordon Byron
#41. What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.
David Blunkett
#43. And there the stories
Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted
His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.
George Gordon Byron
#44. I suppose I had some meaning when I wrote it; I believe I understood it then.
George Gordon Byron
#45. Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.
George Gordon Byron
#47. Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
George Orwell
#49. Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be. [First published, Childe Harold, 1812
George Gordon Byron
#50. There are two Souls, whose equal flow
In gentle stream so calmly run,
That when they part - they part? - ah no!
They cannot part - those Souls are One.
George Gordon Byron
#51. Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy.
George Gordon Byron
#52. Science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."
George Howe Colt
#53. Revenge is as the tigers spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.
George Gordon Byron
#56. Let him! He is great but in his greatness he is no happier than we in our conflict! Goodness would not make evil; and what else hath he made? but let him sit on his vast solitary throne, creating worlds to make eternity less burthensome to his immense existence.
George Gordon Byron
#57. It is not in the storm or in the strife
We feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,
But in the after-silence on the shore
When all is lost except a little life.
George Gordon Byron
#58. The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.
Lord George Gordon
#59. When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
George Gordon Byron
#61. You're dishonoured, somehow. You've sinned. Sinned against the aspidistra."
"You talk a great deal about aspidistras," said Ravelston.
"They're a dashed important subject," said Gordon.
George Orwell
#63. I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.
George Gordon Byron
#65. Just as I had formed a tolerable establishment my travels commenced, and on my return I find all to do over again; my former flock were all scattered; some married, not before it was needful.
George Gordon Byron
#67. Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
George Gordon Byron
#68. The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
George Gordon Byron
#70. As soon seek roses in December, ice in June,
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff
Believe a woman or an epitaph
Or any other thing that's false
Before you trust in critics.
George Gordon Byron
#71. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
George Gordon Byron
#72. Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.
George Gordon Byron
#74. And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays.
George Gordon Byron
#75. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
George Gordon Byron
#78. I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
George Gordon Byron
#79. A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover
but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Gordon Byron
#80. It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.
Gordon S. Haight
#81. Yet, should our feeble efforts nought avail, Should, after all, our best endeavours fail; Still, let some mercy in your bosoms live, And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.
George Gordon Byron
#82. Oh could I feel as I have felt,-or be what I have been,
Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene;
As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
So midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
George Gordon Byron
#83. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
George Gordon Byron
#84. When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair
George Osborne
#86. And those who saw, it did surprise,
Such drops could fall from human eyes.
George Gordon Byron
#90. 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
#91. Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.
George Gordon Byron
#92. The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart whose softness harmonised the whole
And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
George Gordon Byron
#94. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
George Gordon Byron
#95. Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?
George Gordon Byron
#97. 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.
George Gordon Byron
#99. As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.
George Galloway
#100. And yet, my girl, we weep in vain,
In vain our fate in sighs deplore;
Remembrance only can remain,
But that, will make us weep the more.
George Gordon Byron
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