A Quote by Alexander Pope

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Alexander Pope

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Chloe Heart Part Pleasing Prudent Say She Want Wants

Quote Author

Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb; By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd, Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

Alexander Pope

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

Cole Porter

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

George M. Cohan

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Edward Young

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Alexander Pope

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Charles Churchill

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Alexander Pope

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Erica Jong

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Alexander Pope

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

Francis Quarles

Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Alexander Pope

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

Susanna Centlivre

Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist