Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
art heart men none social true
To feel for none is the true social art of the world's stoics - men without a heart
men
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
losing men opinions rendered
For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager
fall men land
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.
war reading men
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
men strange stranger
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
believe sleep men
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
happiness wedding men
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
death sleep men
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
men thinking dust
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
love sex men
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.
men machines answers
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.
men oracles conscience
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.