Gothic (1986)

Gabriel Byrne: Byron

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• Byron : And here I thought you that contradiction in terms: an intelligent woman!

• Byron : Of course, I eat merely to live. Imagination is my sustenance for such time as life offers more pleasure than death.

• Byron : Vinegar, on the other hand, gives an aesthetic paleness.

  Shelley : And I thought you drank it in mockery of the crucifixion.

• Byron : Then let us live and love so that people will say, The Devil as well as God is an Englishman.

• Byron : Ah, tolerance is a virtue, my dear Shiloh. Alas, I have no virtues.

• Byron : Immortality is for poets.

• Byron : Switzerland is a selfish, cursed, swinish country of brutes. It just happens to be placed in the most romantic region in the world.

• Mary Shelley : Fugitive? From what crime?

  Byron : From fact and fantasy.

• Claire Clairmont : What's the first course?

  Byron : Your lips.

  Claire Clairmont : Second course?

  Byron : Your body.

  Claire Clairmont : Dessert?

  Byron : Your soul!

• Byron : Terror has an irresistible beauty, Shiloh. Would the smooth neck of a woman be so desirable were it not for our secret wish to see upon it a trickle of blood? Forget your women, Shiloh. Do not waste your brilliant words upon them. Poets are for each other.

• Byron : I have no love for any. I can hardly be the stoic with a woman who has scrambled a thousand miles to unphilosophize me.

• Byron : It's no good. You can't run away from your own fears.

• Byron : Love destroys fear.

• Mary Shelley : Go on. Tell us, my lord, how does it feel to fuck with your own sister?

  Byron : As pathetic as with any female, Miss Godwin.

• Byron : To think that in England, I was woken by larks. Here it is the song of the lesser spotted nubile.

• Byron : There are no ghosts in daylight. You'll get used to our nights at Diodati. A little indulgence to heighten our existence on this miserable Earth. Nights of the mind, the imagination. Nothing more.