Quote

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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
Creatures
Heaven
Book
Hides
Fate

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Image
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander Pope
Image
Genius involves both envy and calumny.
Alexander Pope
Image
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
Image
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Alexander Pope
Image
The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
Alexander Pope
Image
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
Alexander Pope
Image
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
Alexander Pope
Image
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
Alexander Pope
Image
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
Alexander Pope
Image
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope
Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
Alexander Pope
Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
Alexander Pope
Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Alexander Pope
Image
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
Alexander Pope
Image
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Alexander Pope
Image
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
Image
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Alexander Pope
Image
Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
Alexander Pope