Alexander Pope Quotes
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At every word a reputation dies.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.
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Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Let such, such only tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country and be poor.
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The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made Enlargements too, In ev'ry Ear it spread, on ev'ry Tongue it grew.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.