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• Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcou...
• Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epitaph on Gay...
• T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 135...
• Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 157...
• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Universal Prayer, Stanza 1...
• Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 246...
• Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 15...
• Woman 's at best a contradiction still.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 270...
• Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Odes, Book iv, Ode 9...