Lord Byron Quotes (306 Quotes)

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence The summer of a dormouse.

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

O Man Thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy word deceit By n

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.