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
generally indeed jealousy lovers self spice
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.
selfish trust-no-one literature
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
self envy doubt
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
love self snakes
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
country selfish world
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
generally indeed jealousy lovers self spice
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.
self vanity praise
Self praise is no praise at all.
self hypocrisy form
Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy
perseverance commitment self
In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
self tears claims
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
doubt heard rome stood time
I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome
alone burning rebel spirit weak
The spirit burning but unbent, / May writhe, rebel - the weak alone repent!
daily lady leave literary smug wits
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily ""tea is ready,"" Smug coterie and literary lady
adventure agreeable lively
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.