“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
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George Gordon Byron 227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes

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“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?”
The Panel, Act i, Scene 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Altered from Isaac Bickerstaff's "'T is Well 't is no Worse"; also found in Debrett's "Asylum for Fugitive Pieces", vol. i., p. 15.