George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Quotes (1709-1773)

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“The lover in the husband may be lost.”

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“Women, like princes, find few real friends.”

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“How much the wife is dearer than the bride.”

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

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

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

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

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

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“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.”

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Love 2 quotes

“The lover in the husband may be lost.”

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Beauty 2 quotes

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

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Husbands

“The lover in the husband may be lost.”

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Friendship

“Women, like princes, find few real friends.”

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Vanity

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

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Hope

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

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Poetry about love

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

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Bliss

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

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Poets

“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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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Women 2 quotes

“A cunning woman is a knavish fool.”

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton on Wives

“How much the wife is dearer than the bride.”

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