Byron

Famous quotes containing the word byron:

“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice,
I think I must take up with avarice.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold:”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a “grand peut-être”Mbut still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it—the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)