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
selfish trust-no-one literature
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
unhappy literature sometimes
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
earth literature judged
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
literature way shelley
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
life literature rewards
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.
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
idols people literature
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
love-is thinking literature
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
passion people literature
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
literature nostalgia old-time
The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
book names literature
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
funny stupidity literature
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
tears literature form
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
literature fortune all-things
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.