Lord Byron Love Quotations

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

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

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

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

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

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.

O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence

Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s

The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Alas! The love of women! it is known to be a lovely and fearful thing!

Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

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.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

Absence - that common cure of love.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.