Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all . — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear...” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
