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Alexander Pope
498 quotes
“Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To Berkeley every virtue under heaven.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He 's armed without that 's innocent within.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then marble soften'd into life grew warm, And yielding, soft metal flow'd to human form.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who says in verse what others say in prose.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O thou! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er, But lived in Settle's numbers one day more.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Another, yet the same.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous;--answer him, ye owls!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And proud his mistress' order to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How sweet an Ovid, Murray was our boast!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The right divine of kings to govern wrong.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots purple as their wines.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian ground.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Judicious drank, and greatly daring din'd.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire Chaos is restor'd, Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source