Alexander Pope Quotes
1688 – 1744
English poet, author of "An Essay on Criticism" and "The Rape of the Lock".
22 quotesAbout Alexander Pope on Wikipedia
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
“Years following years steal something ev'ry day. At last they steal us from ourselves away.”
“Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'tis but the funeral of the former year.”
“There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.”
“Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call; she comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.”
“Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”
“Is there no bright reversion in the sky for those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes; the glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“Of manners gentle, of affections mild; in wit, a man; simplicity, a child.”
“'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; no force can bend me, no persuasion move.”
“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began, a mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
“So perish all, whose breast ne'er learned to glow for others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
