Lord Byron Quotes on Man (20 Quotes)

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Nor be, what man should ever be, The friend of Beauty in distress.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man it is -- I really scarce know what but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

I have always laid it down as a maxim and found it justified by experience that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

She had consented to create again That Adam, called the happiest of men'.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence courage without ferocity and all the virtues of man without his vices.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Why don't they knead two virtuous souls for life Into that moral centaur, man and wife

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon -- the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

As to ''Don Juan,'' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing it may be bawdy, but is it not good English It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world and tooled in a post-chaise in a hackney coach in a Gondola against a wall in a court carriage in a vis a vis on a table and under it