Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
coffee leave pity serious tea tis wine
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, for tea and coffee leave us much more serious
although beverage born both fearful human love marriage rarely sign sober time tis vinegar wine
Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s
crave lift thee unto
Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift / My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.
rob strips women
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
life
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
cannot sincerity
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
itself life
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
butler daughters grow run wives
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
men
Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
life reward vicious
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
expect gives later sooner
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
gives
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one.