Quote

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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
Human
Join
Promiscuously
Humans
Birds
Deplore
Well
Beast
Woes
Feel
Merit
Precepts
Feels
Bird
Bachelors
Like
Divine
Sinful
Full
Beasts
Wells
Woe

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
True self-love and social are the same.
Alexander Pope
Image
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Alexander Pope
Image
Passions are the gales of life.
Alexander Pope
Image
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
Alexander Pope
Image
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
Alexander Pope
Image
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
Alexander Pope
Image
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Alexander Pope
Image
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope
Image
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
Alexander Pope
Image
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
Alexander Pope
Image
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
Alexander Pope
Image
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
Alexander Pope
Image
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope
Image
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope
Image
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
Alexander Pope