Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
country country-love poor
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
love men names
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
love hate men
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
love passion men
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
love lost solitary
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
love art dust
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
love sin offence
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
love wings air
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
teenage teenage-love crime
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
toil lovers force
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
thinking young-friends young-love
It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
self self-love social
True self-love and social are the same.
judging gold and-love
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.