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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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
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I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Why did she love him? Curious fool - be still - is human love the growth of human will?
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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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