For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron

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

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron

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

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

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron

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

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

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

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Lord Byron