Quotes by Lord Byron

George Gordon, Lord Byron, published Childe Harold at twenty-four and, as he put it, woke up famous. He was celebrated and then hounded out of England over his private life, wrote the comic masterpiece Don Juan in exile, and died at thirty-six in Greece, where he had gone to fight for independence. He invented a character type — brooding, brilliant, self-destructive — that fiction has been recycling ever since. Much of what he wrote was funnier than his reputation allows.