BYRON, GEORGE GORDON (LORD)

1. Thus it is with everything and everybody for whom I feel anything like a real attachment.—"War, death or discord doth lay siege to them." I never even could keep alive a dog that I liked or that liked me. . . If anything happens to my Amica I have done with the passion forever—it is my last love. . . I can hope no more to inspire attachment and I trust never again feel it.—BYRON
   

2. My ideas of a character may run away with me; like all imaginative men I, of course, embody myself with the character while I draw it, but not a moment after the pen is from off the paper.—BYRON
   

3. And be the Spartan's epitaph on me—
   "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."—BYRON, Childe Harold

4. He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the street  mimicked.—MACAULAY, Essays: Moore's Life of Byron
   

5. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,—a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.—MACAULAY, Essays: Moore's Life of Byron
   

6. Yes, Byron, thou art gone,
   Gone like a star that through the firmament
   Shot and was lost, in its eccentric course
   Dazzling, perplexing. Yet thy heart, methinks,
   Was generous, noble—noble in its scorn
   Of all things low or little; nothing there
   Sordid or servile.—SAMUEL ROGERS, Italy: Bologna
   

7. I do not write; I have lived too long near Lord Byron, and the sun has extinguished the glow-worm.—SHELLEY, Of Byron
   

8. Space wondered less at the swift and fair creations of God when He grew weary of vacancy, than I at this spirit of an angel in the mortal paradise of a decaying body.—SHELLEY, Of Byron
   

9. Too avid of earth's bliss, he was of those
   Whom Delight flies because they give her chase.—WILLIAM WATSON, Byron the Voluptuary