Lord Byron Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.
— John Constable
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Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron,…
— Bernard Lown
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Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those…
— Gore Vidal
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When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine…
— John Keats
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Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today,…
— Alan Moore
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy,…
— Brenda Ueland
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forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and…
— Zbigniew Herbert
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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan,…
— Lord Byron
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I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials,…
— Susanna Clarke
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Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me. Lord Byron Love gives eyes to see what the eye without love can't see…
— Sorin Cerin
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate…
— Ogden Nash
Who Wrote These Lord Byron Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Lord Byron Quotes as follows: