George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
British politician
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
editPoetical Works (1801)
edit- The Poetical Works of George, Lord Lyttleton (London: Cadell and Davies, 1801)
- Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.- "Soliloquy of a Beauty in the Country. Written at Eton College", line 11, p. 4.
- Women, like princes, find few real friends.
- "Advice to a Lady. 1732", line 10, p. 56
- What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition?—To be fair.- "Advice to a Lady. 1732", line 17, p. 57.
- The lover in the husband may be lost.
- "Advice to a Lady. 1732", line 112, p. 61.
- 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. Written in the Year 1732", line 9, p. 75.
- None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair:
But Love can hope, where Reason would despair.- "Epigram", line 1, p. 77.
- How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
- "An Irregular Ode. Written at Wickham in 1846. To Miss Lucy Fortescue", line 34, p. 88.
- 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", line 21, p. 141.
