Lord Byron

• Actions are our epochs.
  • Manfred

• He who surpasses or subsdues mankind
  Must look down on the hate of those below.
  
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
  Sadder than low-songs on the midnight blast,
  Is that portentous phrase, I told you so.
  • Don Juan

• A man must take his time for any trade,
  Save censure, critics all are ready-made.
  • Don Juan

• With just enough of learning to misquote.
  • English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 66

• Maid of Athens, ere we part,
  Give, oh give me back my heart!
  • Maid of Athens

• Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
  And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 9

• The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 6

• Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 23

• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth!
  Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 73

• A thousand years scarce serve to form a state:
  An hour may lay it in the dust.
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 84

• Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 1

• My native land, good night!
  • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 13

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