Famous quotes containing the words gordon noel byron, ggeorge gordon noel, noel byron, ggeorge gordon, gordon, noel and/or byron:
“To withdraw myself from myself ... has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric—and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Such is Truth! Men dare not look her in the face, except by degrees: they mistake her for a Gorgon, instead of knowing her to be a Minerva.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric—and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”
—GGeorge Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,—the throne
Of the Invisible!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe—you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)