“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”
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George Gordon Byron227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes
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An Expostulation (1789).
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“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
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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.