George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
British politician
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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.
Quotes edit
- 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.- Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
- An Irregular Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.- Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Where none admire, 't is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.- Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.- Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Advice to a Lady (1731) edit
- Women, like princes, find few real friends.
- What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
- The lover in the husband may be lost.
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