Quotes by Byron, Lord

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from th >>

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. >>

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundatio >>

Quotations about Catholicism

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teac >>

You can't run the Church on Hail Marys. >>

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. >>

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

Byron, Lord