Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or alexander:
“Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“I shall not cease to bless because
I lay about me with the taws
That night and morning I may thrash
Greek Alexander from my flesh,
Augustus Caesar, and after these
That great rogue Alcibiades.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)