Love Quotes by Alexander Pope · Page 2

True self-love and social are the same.

— Alexander Pope

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

— Alexander Pope

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

— Alexander Pope

Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

— Alexander Pope

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

— Alexander Pope

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

— Alexander Pope

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

— Alexander Pope

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream;

— Alexander Pope

“Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear...”

— Alexander Pope

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

— Alexander Pope

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

— Alexander Pope

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

— Alexander Pope

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

— Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

— Alexander Pope

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

— Alexander Pope

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

— Alexander Pope

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

— Alexander Pope

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

— Alexander Pope

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

— Alexander Pope

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

— Alexander Pope

Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

— Alexander Pope

And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

— Alexander Pope

There is a majesty in simplicity.

— Alexander Pope

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

— Alexander Pope

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

— Alexander Pope

Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

— Alexander Pope

“She sins with poets through pure love of wit”

— Alexander Pope

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

— Alexander Pope

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

— Alexander Pope

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

— Alexander Pope

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

— Alexander Pope

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of…

— Alexander Pope

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a…

— Alexander Pope

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove;…

— Alexander Pope

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;…

— Alexander Pope

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,…

— Alexander Pope

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by…

— Alexander Pope