George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Quotes
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What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Where none admire, 't is useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman's noblest station is retreat.
A woman's noblest station is retreat.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.
But love can hope where reason would despair.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known.
Both most are valued where they best are known.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
