My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. (Lord Byron)

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices.

Related topics

celebrity comfort great teeth

Related quotes

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Françoise Sagan

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch