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
religion doubt literature
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
life cups sparkle
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
school men two
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
life stars night
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
attitude opinion made
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
time sorrow tears
The busy have no time for tears.
love funny life
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
jealousy world shows
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
want companionship should
If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
love inspirational life
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
reading knowledge answers
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
love valentines-day thank-you
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
food drinking lobster
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
party drunk ladders
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.