Byronic-hero Quote by Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“he came to the conclusion that there was some mysterious connection between cleverness and unhappiness, and thanking his stars that he was neither scholar,…

— Charles Kingsley

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast…

— James Joyce

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

“Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a…

— William Manchester

“As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire to Rousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to be irresponsible, selfish,…

— Max Vegaritter

“A person with a melancholy temperament had been fated with both an awful burden and what Byron called “a fearful gift.” The burden was…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk