Byron Quote by Susanna Clarke

“Byron tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire…

— Susanna Clarke

“This was him, an earnest health-care professional, lovesick and concerned, the sort of foolish heart who had told the policeman that he’d drive right…

— Charles Graeber

“We have the same symptoms as tuberculosis, especially in the eyes of the Romantic Poets. Pale, tired, coughing up blood.” “That’s romantic?” I had…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“Ah, what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Under this swarm of waspish self-inquiries he began to feel sorry for himself - a brilliant man trapped, a Byron tamed; and his mind…

— John Fowles

“And she would hope that the girl who had tittered was living in a shitty tract house with a goy husband who beat her,…

— Stephen King

“And that was the first time Byron remembered that he had ever thought how a man’s name, which is supposed to be just the…

— William Faulkner

“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

“She had to think about the future, her mother said. Marriage. She was sixteen now. It was time. The word made her sick to…

— Kimberly Cutter

“A few strands of his long, dark hair had been caught by the wind and blown against his face. Without thinking, she reached up…

— Kiki Hamilton

“I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A…

— Oscar Wilde

“...at every twirl a year fell from his shoulders; soon he felt back at the age of twenty, when in that very same ballroom…

— Anonymous