Lord Byron

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

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

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

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.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

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

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Who loves, raves.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.