Byronic Hero Quotes

#1. The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

Albert Camus

#2. I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Hugh Laurie

#3. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.

Peter S. Hawkins

#4. Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

Jane Fonda

#5. Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

#6. If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.

Bill O'Reilly

#7. If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

Eddie Guerrero

#8. I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.

FKA Twigs

#9. The question one asks of the young writer who wants to
know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing novels what
you want to do? Really want to do?"
If the young writer answers, "Yes," then all one can say is:
Do it. In fact, he will anyway.

John Gardner

#10. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Ayn Rand

#11. Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Ralph Richardson