Paul Whitehead

Paul Whitehead (6 February 1710 – 20 December 1774) was a British satirist and a secretary to the infamous Hellfire Club.

Quotes

• With the sports of the field there's no pleasure can vie,
  While jocund we follow our hounds in full cry.
  • "Hunting Song", in Apollo and Daphne (1734, or later)

• Fond of your freedom spurn the venal fee,
  And prove he's only great—who dares to be free.
  • Manners (1739), l. 21; 2nd ed. (1748):

    Fond of your freedom, spurn at the venal fee,
    And prove he's only great—who dares be free.

• Honour’s a mistress all mankind pursue,
  Yet most mistake the false one for the true:
  Lur’d by the trappings, dazzled by the paint,
  We worship oft the idol for the saint.
  • Honour (1747), l. 105

• Why, praise is satire in these sinful days.
  • Honour (1747), l. 215