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
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.
people reason possession
Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
lying people way
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
giving people mind
The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
mistake people risk
A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.
people ears resources
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
love small-changes people
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
passion hard-work people
You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
army men people
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.
mean love-is people
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," / They mean to scold, and very often do; / When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," / They make you dread that they 'II recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; / At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, / But then, no doubt, it equally as true is, / A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
passion people literature
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
giving people romance
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages.
character people liberty
I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.
home two people
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.