If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord ByronI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
Lord ByronA mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron