A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

- 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

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abu…

- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton