Alexander Pope Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• All other goods by fortune's hand are given,
  A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

  Alexander Pope

  Marriage, Hands, Wife

  "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope".

• The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Wife, Ease

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

• For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Wife, Aids

  Alexander Pope (1848). “The Select Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author”, p.54

• Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try,
  And ring suspected vessels ere they buy;
  But wives, a random choice, untried they take;
  They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake;
  Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away,
  And all the woman glares in open day.

  Alexander Pope

  Dream, Horse, Men

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.87

• What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
  Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
  With matchless impudence they style a wife,
  The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
  A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
  A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
  Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
  But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Night, Evil

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.221

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