Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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
Life
Vanity
Like
Passing
Rivers
Constantly
Coming
Away
Human
Passings
Humans
River
More quotes by Alexander Pope
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Alexander Pope
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope
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
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Alexander Pope
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Alexander Pope
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
Is not absence death to those who love?
Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
Alexander Pope
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Alexander Pope
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
Alexander Pope
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
Alexander Pope
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
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
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
Alexander Pope
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
Alexander Pope
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander Pope
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
Alexander Pope
