George, 1st Baron Lyttelton Quotes

George, 1st Baron Lyttelton writes sly, poetic lines about ambition, beauty and the value of admiration.

13 quotes

1. 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.

2. Women, like princes, find few real friends.

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

4. The lover in the husband may be lost.

5. How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

6. None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

7. Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.

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

9. A woman's noblest station is retreat.

10. A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

11. Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

12. To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

13. Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.