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Alexander Pope
498 quotes
“And not a man appears to tell their fate.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let him, oraculous, the end, the way, The turns of all thy future fate display.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The first in glory, as the first in place.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Soft as some song divine thy story flows.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But sure the eye of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There in the bright assemblies of the skies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gloomy as night he stands.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“His native home deep imag'd in his soul.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last and hardest conquest of the mind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The sex is ever to a soldier kind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Far from gay cities and the ways of men.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who love too much, hate in the like extreme, And both the golden mean alike condemn.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For too much rest itself becomes a pain.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For love deceives the best of womankind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And would'st thou evil for his good repay?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A winy vapour melting in a tear.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The fool of fate,--thy manufacture, man.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dogs, ye have had your day!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone, The genuine seeds of poesy are sown.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So ends the bloody business of the day.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source