George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Quotes

1709–1773 England

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (January 17 1709 – August 24 1773), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Baronet between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.

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Also known as: George Lyttleton, George Lyttleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton, Lord Lyttelton, Lyttelton, George, Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, 1st Baron

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None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair:
But Love can hope, where Reason would despair.

Poetical Works (1801)

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

Poetical Works (1801)

Women, like princes, find few real friends.

Poetical Works (1801)

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

Poetical Works (1801)

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman’s noblest station is retreat.

Poetical Works (1801)

Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain:
The heart can ne'er a transport know,
That never feels a pain.

Poetical Works (1801)

What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition?—To be fair.

Poetical Works (1801)

The lover in the husband may be lost.

Poetical Works (1801)

Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word
Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

Advice to a Lady (1733)

For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre
None but the noblest passions to inspire,
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.

Poetical Works (1801)

Ah, no! the conquest was obtained with ease;
He pleased you by not studying to please.

For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre
None but the noblest passions to inspire,
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line, which dying he could wish to blot.

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