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According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.
Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
Edward VII ruled the British Empire with a slightly pudgy cigar-stained hand, assuring his subjects that duty was important but so too was fun. “It doesn’t matter what you do,” he said, “so long as you don’t frighten the horses.”
Erik Larson • Thunderstruck
it is personalities, not principles, that move the age."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.
Arthur Wesley Wheen • All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Historian Henry Adams stated that power is a tumor that ends up killing its victims’ sympathies.