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Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)

(1788 – 1824) Full name: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron. Commonly known simply as Lord Byron. An English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. His best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty." He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.