Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

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.