George Gordon Byron Quotes - Page 2

for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man, and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learned the language of another world.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

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!

Friendship is love without wings.

let joy be unconfined...

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.