Lord Byron Name Quotations

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth

Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

He left a Corsair's name to other times, / Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.

The glory and the nothing of a name

The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!