Source: The Dunciad
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Famous Alexander Pope Quotes
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
“On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life
“Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.”
“Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
Source: An Essay on Man
“Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements
“Curse on all laws but those which love has made.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
Source: Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People
“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin
“Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.”
“One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
“Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward
“Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.”
“O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.”
Source: An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester
“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”
“For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes
Source: The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings: Poems and Other Writings
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials