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Lord Byron

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.


— Lord Byron


#champagne #drinking #eating #feminine #lobster

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.


— Lord Byron


#does #green #hill #joy #laugh

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.


— Lord Byron


#feathers #highly #men #nothing #quicker

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.


— Lord Byron


#anything #friend #friends #lovers #mistress

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.


— Lord Byron


#codes #devils #hell #help #humanity

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.


— Lord Byron


#face #got #harlot #hold #hope

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.


— Lord Byron


#cheap #laugh #medicine #you

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.


— Lord Byron


#friendship #grow #into #love #may

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?


— Lord Byron


#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.


— Lord Byron


#go #i #mad #mind #write






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Described as "a woman without judgment or self-command" Catherine either spoiled and indulged her son or aggravated him with her capricious stubbornness. But the more I reflect the more I am bewildered to assign any cause for this precocity of affection. Affairs and scandals

In 1812 Byron embarked on a well-publicised affair with the married Lady Caroline Lamb that shocked the British public.

Byron was celebrated in life for aristocratic excesses including huge debts numerous love affairs rumours of a scandalous incestuous liaison with his half-sister and self-imposed exile. George Gordon Byron 6th Baron Byron later George Gordon Noel 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) commonly known simply as Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.

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