George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.