Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, george gordon noel, noel byron, george gordon, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings,
And dandies, all are gone on the wind’s wings.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Would he adore a sultan? he obey
The intellectual eunuch Castlereagh?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“A lady of a “certain age,” which means
Certainly aged.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Shelley is truth itself—and honour itself—notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent,
Rider and horse,—friend, foe,—in one red
burial blent!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)