Byron

Famous quotes containing the word byron:

    I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Now, were I once at home, and in good satire,
    I’d try conclusions with those Janizaries,
    And show them what an intellectual war is.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)