Quote

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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
Wit
Cures
Wine
Works
Age
Heart
Gainst
Wakes
Cure

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Alexander Pope
Image
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
Alexander Pope
Image
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Alexander Pope
Image
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope
Image
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Image
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
Alexander Pope
Image
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
Alexander Pope
Image
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
Alexander Pope
Image
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Alexander Pope
Image
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
Alexander Pope
Image
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
Image
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
Alexander Pope
Image
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander Pope
Image
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
Alexander Pope
Image
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Alexander Pope
Image
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
Alexander Pope