Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, george gordon noel, noel byron, george gordon, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction ... do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“If youth but knew; if age but could.
Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“complaint of present days
Is not the certain path to future praise.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they none, that they have long dresses and we short, and that we talk much and they little. In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, sodomy and smoking.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“And had it been the dove from Noah’s ark,
Returning there from her successful search,
Which in their way that moment chanced to fall,
They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I look upon him to be the worst of models—though the most extraordinary of writers.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)