Quote

Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

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
Passion
Sincere
Known
Consistent
Women
Search
Wild
Dissemblers
False
Princes
Constant
Cunning
Fool
Ruling
Alone
Priests

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Alexander Pope
Image
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope
Image
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope
Image
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
Alexander Pope
Image
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
Image
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
Alexander Pope
Image
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope
Image
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope
Image
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
Alexander Pope
Image
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
Alexander Pope
Image
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
Alexander Pope
Image
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope
Image
Expression is the dress of thought.
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
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope