Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, ggeorge gordon noel, noel byron, ggeorge gordon, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric—and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“A lady of a “certain age,” which means
Certainly aged.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric—and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
““Let there be light!” said God, and there was light!
“Let there be blood!” says man, and there’s a sea!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;
The worm—the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)