Paul Whitehead
Appearance
Paul Whitehead (6 February 1710 – 20 December 1774) was a British satirist and a secretary to the infamous Hellfire Club.
Quotes
[edit]- 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.
- Fond of your freedom, spurn at the venal fee,
- Manners (1739), l. 21; 2nd ed. (1748):
- 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