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
itself life
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
butler daughters grow run wives
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
men
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
life reward vicious
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.
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
expect gives later sooner
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
gives
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
critics man ready save serve time
A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made
censure critics jokes learning man ready save serve time trade
A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote,/ With just enough of learning to misquote.
dew farmer king left realm worse
A better farmer ne'er brushed dew from lawn, / A worse king never left a realm undone!
beast cannot distress hand ladies
A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, Or any interesting beast of prey, Are similes at hand for the distress Of ladies who cannot have their own way
dust form hour lay scarce serve thousand
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust
belief believe inclined passport
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.