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From loveless youth to unrespected age, No passion gratified, except her rage, So much the fury still outran the wit, That pleasure miss'd her, and the scandal hit. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 125) [Character] Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige here, and she'll hate you while you live. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 137) [Women] Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 15) [Folly] Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 163) [Virtue] Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 185) [Zeal] Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 2) [Women] Most women have no characters at all. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 2) [Women] In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind; Those only fix'd, they first or last obey. The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 207) [Character : Passion] See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 243) [Life] Ah, friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought and touch the heart be thine. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 248) [Friends] To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine! - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 249) [Teaching] O! blessed with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; She who can own a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules. Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 257) [Women] She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shews she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 261) [Wives] And mistress of herself, though china fall. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 268) [Women] Woman's at best a contradiction still. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 270) [Women] Fine by defect, and delicately weak. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 43) [Quality : Weakness] See sin in state, majestically drunk; Proud as a peeress, prouder as a punk. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 69) [Sin] With too much Quickness ever to be taught; With too much Thinking to have common Thought. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 97) [Character] You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live. - Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 99) [Pain] Men some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake; Men some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be queen for life. - Moral Essays (ep. II, p. 215) [Women] Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? - Moral Essays (ep. III) [Medicine] At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. - Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 135) [Corruption] The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. - Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 153) [Passion] Extremes in nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use. - Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 161) [Extremes] Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. - Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 171) [Mammon] Displaying page 25 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 [25] 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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