Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, george gordon noel, noel byron, george gordon, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but
The truth in masquerade.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Ambition was my idol, which was broken
Before the shrines of Sorrow, and of Pleasure;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story—
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes—and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies
For those who know thee not.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn;
The tree will wither long before it fall;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)