Lyttelton Quotes & Sayings

How much the wife is dearer than the bride. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines. — Humphrey Lyttelton

Coincidence is a wonderful thing. — Humphrey Lyttelton

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then. — Humphrey Lyttelton

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. — Humphrey Lyttelton

A cunning woman is a knavish fool. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! — Humphrey Lyttelton

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something. — Humphrey Lyttelton

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. — Humphrey Lyttelton

To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."

[From a letter to George Lyttelton] — Rupert Hart-Davis

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. — Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

A woman's noblest station is retreat. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show. — Humphrey Lyttelton

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that? — Humphrey Lyttelton

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had ... his photocopier ... — Humphrey Lyttelton

Love can hope where reason would despair. — George Lyttelton

I just stroll in right before the recording goes on. — Humphrey Lyttelton

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. — Humphrey 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

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 abused. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton