Quote

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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
Sun
Avarice
General
Mist
Shall
Flood
Born
Ministers
Withstood
Long
Corruption
Deluge
Like
Length
Blot
Lows
Watchful
Spread
Creeping

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Alexander Pope
Image
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
Alexander Pope
Image
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
Alexander Pope
Image
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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
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
Image
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
Image
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Alexander Pope
Image
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
Alexander Pope
Image
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope
Image
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
Alexander Pope
Image
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
Alexander Pope
Image
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
Alexander Pope
Image
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Alexander Pope
Image
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
Image
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Alexander Pope
Image
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope
Image
Cavil you may, but never criticise.
Alexander Pope