Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, noel byron, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“War’s a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“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)
“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)