Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, george gordon noel, noel byron, george gordon, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted—nothing acquired—talking without ideas—if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!—and in this way half London pass what is called life.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“So much alarmed that she is quite alarming,
All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.”
—Harry Gordon Frankfurt (b. 1929)
“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn;
The tree will wither long before it fall;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)