Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
scandal dissection form
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
war reading men
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . 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.
men strange stranger
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
thinking humanity devil
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
time age six
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
funny military humorous
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
believe sleep men
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
life literature rewards
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
love friends jealousy
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.
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
country laughing arms
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
self envy doubt
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
idols people literature
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
atheist believe mind
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.