Quote

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Alexander Pope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Nature
Erring
Discord
Unknown
Thee
Literature
Art

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Alexander Pope
Image
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Alexander Pope
Image
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
Alexander Pope
Image
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope
Image
While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
Alexander Pope
Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
Alexander Pope
Image
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Alexander Pope
Image
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
Alexander Pope
Image
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
Alexander Pope
Image
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
Image
But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
Alexander Pope
Image
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
Alexander Pope
Image
Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
Alexander Pope
Image
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Alexander Pope
Image
Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
Alexander Pope
Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
Image
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
Alexander Pope
Image
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
Alexander Pope