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
god men climate
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
people ears resources
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
love water swim
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.
love small-changes people
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
love real men
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.
love self snakes
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
mind delicacy dirt
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
country selfish world
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
life-is-too-short chess-game life-it-too-short
Life is too short for chess.
nature farewell woods
There is pleasure in the pathless woods.
sleep dying going-to-sleep
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
criticism made critics
Critics are already made.
passion hard-work people
You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
love pain writing
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.