Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

George Gordon Byron

You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

George Gordon Byron

They never fail who die in a great cause.

George Gordon Byron

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

George Gordon Byron

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

George Gordon 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.

George Gordon Byron

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction: if it could be told, how much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

Don Juan, George Gordon Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Geroge Gordon Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

George Gordon Byron

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

George Gordon Byron