Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, george gordon noel, noel byron, george gordon, george, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“Sad mortals! thus the gods still plague you!
He lost his labor, I my jest;
For he was drowned, and I’ve the ague.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Ambition was my idol, which was broken
Before the shrines of Sorrow, and of Pleasure;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.”
—David Lloyd George (1863–1945)
“Romances I ne’er read like those I have seen.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Ambition was my idol, which was broken
Before the shrines of Sorrow, and of Pleasure;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)