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Poet, aristocrat, libertine & all round scallywag, Lord Byron (1788-1824) was one of the first modern celebrities. He wrote astonishing literature, shagged anything that stayed still long enough & died a Greek hero. Here’s is a thread of Byron to set your bodices aquiver 
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
“In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.”
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
“Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”
“Who loves, raves.”
“Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
“Always laugh when you can…it is a cheap medicine.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“The best prophet of the future is the past.”
“I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long, – I am such a strange mélange of good and evil, that it would be difficult to describe me.”
“I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“I feel that one lies to oneself more than to anyone else.”
“I am all for morality now and shall confine myself henceforward to the strictest adultery- which you will please recollect is all that virtuous wife of mine has left me.”
“Like the measles, love is more dangerous when it comes late in life.”
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsidies into friendship.”
“Let us have wine, women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.”
