Quotes By Author: George Gordon Byron

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

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

“They never fail who die in a great cause.”

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more”

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.”

“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”