Quote

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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
Providence
Sport
Unhappy
Destroy
Cry
Creatures
Sports
Gust
Men
Unjust

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Alexander Pope
Image
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
Image
And not a vanity is given in vain.
Alexander Pope
Image
There is a majesty in simplicity.
Alexander Pope
Image
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Alexander Pope
Image
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
Alexander Pope
Image
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
Alexander Pope
Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
Alexander Pope
Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Alexander Pope
Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Alexander Pope
Image
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
Alexander Pope
Image
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
Alexander Pope
Image
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
Alexander Pope
Image
The laughers are a majority.
Alexander Pope
Image
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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
Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
Image
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope
Image
I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Alexander Pope