Quote

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!

Alexander Pope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Names
Free
Another
Make
Men
Fond
Love
Mistress
Thee
Name

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
Image
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
Alexander Pope
Image
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
Alexander Pope
Image
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Alexander Pope
Image
Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
Alexander Pope
Image
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
Alexander Pope
Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
Alexander Pope
Image
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander Pope
Image
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Alexander Pope
Image
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope
Image
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
Alexander Pope
Image
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
Alexander Pope
Image
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
Alexander Pope
Image
While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
Alexander Pope
Image
Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
Alexander Pope
Image
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
Alexander Pope
Image
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope
Image
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Alexander Pope