[My advice] will one day be found With other relics of 'a former world,' When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses that pull, Each tugs in a different way And the greatest… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.” — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager — Lord Byron Copy Share Image