George Gordon Byron

George Gordon Byron: I am so...

George Gordon Byron: I am so...

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there...

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George Gordon Byron: But words are...

George Gordon Byron: But words are...

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes...

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George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. . . I do not...

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George Gordon Byron: Opinions are made...

George Gordon Byron: Opinions are made...

Opinions are made to be changed -- or how is truth to be got at?

Source: Letter, 9...

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George Gordon Byron: Tis pleasant, sure,...

George Gordon Byron: Tis pleasant, sure,...

Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing...

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George Gordon Byron: I really cannot...

George Gordon Byron: I really cannot...

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up...

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George Gordon Byron: For in itself...

George Gordon Byron: For in itself...

For in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one...

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George Gordon Byron: I am sure...

George Gordon Byron: I am sure...

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan. 1811;...

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George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

George Gordon Byron: If I don't...

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand...

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George Gordon Byron: In general I...

George Gordon Byron: In general I...

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after...

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George Gordon Byron: What should I...

George Gordon Byron: What should I...

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,...

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George Gordon Byron: Letter writing is...

George Gordon Byron: Letter writing is...

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Source:...

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George Gordon Byron: Truth is always...

George Gordon Byron: Truth is always...

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...

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George Gordon Byron: Nothing can confound...

George Gordon Byron: Nothing can confound...

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Source: In The...

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George Gordon Byron: I only go...

George Gordon Byron: I only go...

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Source: Byron's Letters...

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George Gordon Byron: If I am...

George Gordon Byron: If I am...

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved...

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George Gordon Byron: This is the...

George Gordon Byron: This is the...

This is the patent age of new inventions
For killing bodies, and saving souls,
All propagated with the best of...

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George Gordon Byron: When we think...

George Gordon Byron: When we think...

When we think we lead we are most led.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

George Gordon Byron: My great comfort...

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all...

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