Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
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Famous Alexander Pope Quotes
“Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire
“All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.”
“Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. Carefully Collated and Compared with Former Editions: Together with Notes from the Various Critics and Commentators
“O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: The Major Works
“Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. From the text of dr. Warburton. With the life of the author [by T. Cibber].
“For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.”
Source: The Dunciad
Source: The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings
“'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq
“All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]”