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
love friends jealousy
Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
friendship wings eros
Frienship is eros...without wings
love friendship agreement
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
love friendship real-friends
Friendship is Love without his wings!
life friendship dog
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
love friendship may
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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.
love loves others scholars-and-scholarship woman
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
convert five four glad greater process prove sort though
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.
holiness lately miracles shall since understand
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.
fitzgerald shall tavern
Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?
admire art
Not to admire is all the art I know.