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
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But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake
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In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
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In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow
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I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
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Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
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Not to admire is all the art I know.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past
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That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
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The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.
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I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me; / I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed / To its idolatries a patient knee, / Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud / In worship of an echo.