Byron

Famous quotes containing the word byron:

“The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want,
With just enough of talent, and no more,
To lengthen fetters by another fixed,
And offer poison long already mixed.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,—roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
Stops with the shore;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens ... to stumble upon it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)