George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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

Poetical Works (1801)

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

• Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
  A woman’s noblest station is retreat.
  • "Advice to a Lady. 1732", line 51

• 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", 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

External links

• Works by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton at Project Gutenberg