--- title: "11 Strange Quotes By Lord Byron" description: "11 Strange quotes by Lord Byron. Plus more from Lord Byron and more Strange sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/lord-byron-356_truth_truth-is-always-strange-1534997_1534997.jpg" --- > [Truth is always strange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/truth-is-always-strange/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/lord-byron-356_truth_truth-is-always-strange-1534997_1534997.jpg) > [Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fiction/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cee/lord-byron-356_always_truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fi_764916.jpg) > [What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/what-a-strange-thing-is-man-and-what-a-stranger-is-woman/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/lord-byron-356_men_what-a-strange-thing-is-man-and-what-a-s_1844655.jpg) > [For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/for-truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fiction/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/lord-byron-356_fiction_for-truth-is-always-strange-stranger-tha_542345.jpg) > [What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/what-a-strange-thing-man-is-and-what-a-stranger-thing-woman/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14a/lord-byron-356_strange_what-a-strange-thing-man-is-and-what-a-s_2384477.jpg) > [I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/i-am-so-changeable-being-everything-by-turns-and-nothing-long-such-a/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47a/lord-byron-356_evil_i-am-so-changeable-being-everything-by-t_2127555.jpg) > [Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/let-not-his-mode-of-raising-cash-seem-strange-although-he-fleeced-the/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f3/lord-byron-356_cash_let-not-his-mode-of-raising-cash-seem-st_3067363.jpg) > ['Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/twas-strange-that-one-so-young-should-thus-concern-his-brain-about/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/lord-byron-356_action_twas-strange-that-one-so-young-should-th_2065232.jpg) > [“Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction; if it could be told, How much would novels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/tis-strange-but-true-for-truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-2/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/358/lord-byron-356_strange_tis-strange-but-true-for-truth-is-always_3236073.jpg) > [There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/there-is-something-to-me-very-softening-in-the-presence-of-a-woman/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/lord-byron-356_accounts_there-is-something-to-me-very-softening_2048712.jpg) > [Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/tis-pleasing-to-be-school-d-in-a-strange-tongue-by-female-lips-and/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e5/lord-byron-356_cases_tis-pleasing-to-be-school-d-in-a-strange_1284303.jpg) ## Other authors on Strange ## More by Lord Byron > [A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/a-thousand-years-may-scare-form-a-state-an-hour-may-lay-it-in-ruins/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/to-chase-the-glowing-hours-with-flying-feet/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/your-thief-looks-exactly-like-the-rest-or-rather-better-tis-only-at/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/age-shakes-athena-s-tower-but-spares-gray-marathon/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/she-walks-in-beauty-like-the-night-of-cloudless-climes-and-starry/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/we-of-the-craft-are-all-crazy-some-are-affected-by-gaiety-others-by/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/men-love-in-haste-but-they-detest-at-leisure/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/and-the-commencement-of-atonement-is-the-sense-of-its-necessity/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/self-love-for-ever-creeps-out-like-a-snake-to-sting-anything-which/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/lord-of-himself-that-heritage-of-woe/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/here-s-a-sigh-to-those-who-love-me-and-a-smile-to-those-who-hate-and/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/for-most-men-till-by-losing-rendered-sager-will-back-their-own/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/it-is-by-far-the-most-elegant-worship-hardly-excepting-the-greek/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/i-should-like-to-know-who-has-been-carried-off-except-poor-dear-me-i/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) > [O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/o-thou-beautiful-and-unimaginable-ether-and-ye-multiplying-masses-of/) [Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/strange/lord-byron/#itemlist", "name": "11 Strange Quotes By Lord Byron", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Truth is always strange", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lord Byron" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/truth-is-always-strange/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/lord-byron-356_truth_truth-is-always-strange-1534997_1534997.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/lord-byron-356_truth_truth-is-always-strange-1534997_1534997.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63e/lord-byron-356_truth_truth-is-always-strange-1534997_1534997.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Truth is always strange” — Lord Byron", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lord Byron" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fiction/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cee/lord-byron-356_always_truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fi_764916.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cee/lord-byron-356_always_truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fi_764916.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cee/lord-byron-356_always_truth-is-always-strange-stranger-than-fi_764916.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.” — Lord Byron", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What a strange thing is man! 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