Gordon

Famous quotes containing the word gordon:

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

“This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I would rather ... have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)