George Gordon Noel Byron quotes

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts--you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Such is Truth! Men dare not look her in the face, except by degrees: they mistake her for a Gorgon, instead of knowing her to be a ...
You must recollect however that I know nothing of painting & that I detest it, unless it reminds me of something I have seen or th ...
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistak ...
The French courage proceeds from vanity--the German from phlegm--the Turkish from fanaticism & opium--the Spanish from pride--the ...
I would rather ... have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
The great object in life is Sensation--to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to ga ...
I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they none, that they have long dresses an ...
The greenest island of my imagination.
The lapse of ages changes all things--time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "abo ...
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