None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.


Epigram; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

George Lyttelton Quotes

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.