Quote

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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
Shining
Poetry
Truth
Clad
Verse
Shines
Brighter
Verses

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
Alexander Pope
Image
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
Alexander Pope
Image
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Alexander Pope
Image
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
Image
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Alexander Pope
Image
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Alexander Pope
Image
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
Alexander Pope
Image
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Alexander Pope
Image
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
Image
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
Alexander Pope
Image
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
Image
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
Alexander Pope
Image
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Alexander Pope
Image
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
Alexander Pope
Image
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
Image
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
Alexander Pope
Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
Alexander Pope
Image
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
Alexander Pope
Image
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
Alexander Pope