What helps it now, that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mocked the smart, Through Europe to the Aetolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own?

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems: Second Series,'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', l.133^8.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
  Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe,18  Jan.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drewa system of ethics, compounded of misanthropyand voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

-1st Baron
  Of the young Byron enthusiasts who emulated and hero- worshipped him.'Moore's Life of Lord Byron', in the Edinburgh Review,  Jun.