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# Byron's remark on women and eating in the 2005 BBC biographical film
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/bairon-odnazhdy-napisal-takuiu-frazu-chto-zhenshchina-ne-dolzhna-byt-zamechena-za-edoi-tolko-esli-eto-ne-lobstery-salat-ili-shampanskoe/
- Published: 2017-11-22T14:05:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:04:13.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Cinema, Books, Mores

Byron once wrote that a woman should never be seen eating, unless it is lobster, salad or champagne. Only these dishes, so the argument goes, do not diminish pure femininity. Idiocy, of course. But in the biographical film about Byron made by the BBC in 2005, this quotation is wittily played upon. At the close of the scene in which Byron begins his love affair with the beautiful Lady Caroline, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, poetess and married beauty, the camera slowly pulls back to show a table strewn with empty champagne glasses and broken lobster shells. The poet's first night of love with his longtime mistress Caroline Lamb is set in the film against a scene involving his pious and frigid wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. The unloved wife is shown in a richly appointed dining room at a bountiful table, dining with great appetite and relish.