Quotes for All
Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds? There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. Edmond … Read more
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the ‘mountains & the woods’-the ‘altars’ of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of … Read more
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. Freeman Dyson
You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron de la Beckwith – the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers – they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask \”Is this America?\” We … Read more
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. Duke of Wellington
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings. Doris Kearns Goodwin
Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town – the same caddie yard – and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all. Dan Jenkins
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle. D. J. Enright
In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, … Read more
Byron says he won’t go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about Wool Pooh, the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go. Christopher Paul Curtis