Gordon

Famous quotes containing the word gordon:

    You must recollect however that I know nothing of painting & that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have seen or think it possible to see.... Depend upon it of all the arts it is the most artificial & unnatural—& that by which the nonsense of mankind is the most imposed upon.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    A woman who ... gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover—but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)