Lord Byron Quotes


Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!


Citations

Byron, George Gordon. Don Juan, Cantos XII.-XIII.-XIV.. John Hunt, 1823, p. 91.

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This saying is attributed to Burke, but see {596187} for a more accurate version.


Lord Byron
Lord Byron
  • Born: January 22, 1788
  • Died: April 19, 1824
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Poet

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS known simply as Lord Byron, was an English peer, who was a poet and politician. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.