Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Besieged
Flatterers
Flatterer
Flattery
Obliged
Obliging
More quotes by Alexander Pope
But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
Alexander Pope
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Alexander Pope
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
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
Alexander Pope
In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Alexander Pope
Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
Alexander Pope
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
Alexander Pope
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Alexander Pope
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Alexander Pope
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
Alexander Pope
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Alexander Pope
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Alexander Pope
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Alexander Pope
Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Alexander Pope
I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
