Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
~ Lord Byron - [Self-love]

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
~ Lord Byron - [Sex]

Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
~ Lord Byron - [Sincerity]

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
~ Lord Byron - [Skepticism]

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
~ Lord Byron - [Skepticism]

Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
~ Lord Byron - [Sleep]

Smiles form the channel of a future tear.
~ Lord Byron - [Smile]

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~ Lord Byron - [Socializing and Socialism]

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
~ Lord Byron - [Society]

In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron - [Solitude]

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron - [Sorrow]

The busy have no time for tears.
~ Lord Byron - [Sorrow]

The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.
~ Lord Byron - [Stupidity]

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
~ Lord Byron - [Thoughts and Thinking]

The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
~ Lord Byron - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
~ Lord Byron - [Time and Time Management]

I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
~ Lord Byron - [Travel and Tourism]

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, 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.
~ Lord Byron - [Travel and Tourism]

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
~ Lord Byron - [Truth]

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
~ Lord Byron - [Tyranny]