Lord Byron

I have been in love with a great many women, and never loved one of them.

I am a very bad man, but I have a very good heart.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

I hate mankind, for I think myself a man.

I am not a good man, but I am a good poet.

I have a passion for solitude, and for ghosts.

I am a very bad Christian, but I believe in God.

I have a great contempt for all cant, whether religious, political, or moral.

I am a very proud man, and I hate to be pitied.

I have always been a lover of paradoxes.

I am a very restless creature, and I cannot stay long in one place.

I have a great horror of marriage, and I would rather be damned than married.

I am a very melancholy man, but I love to laugh.

I have a great passion for the sea, and I would rather live on a ship than on land.

I am a very solitary man, and I prefer the company of books to that of men.

I have a great contempt for all women, except for my sister.

I am a very passionate man, and I love with all my heart, but I hate with all my soul.

I have a great admiration for Napoleon, and I believe he was the greatest man that ever lived.

I am a very generous man, and I would give away my last shilling to a beggar.

I have a great love for animals, and I prefer them to human beings.