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
two bores-you bored
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
love-is thinking literature
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
death failure sacrifice
They never fail who die in a great cause.
passion people literature
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
mutual detest
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
literature nostalgia old-time
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
love hate men
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
time giving agitation
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
stars atoms useless
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
book names literature
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
political consistency politics
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
men world gains
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!
fall tyrants gentleman
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
love spring men
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.