Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, george gordon noel, noel byron, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,
Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,
Sweet is revenge—especially to women,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well:”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“A Turkish bath—that marble paradise of sherbert and sodomy.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The same things change their names at such a rate;
For instance—passion in a lover’s glorious,
But in a husband is pronounced uxorious.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)