Quote

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

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
Faith
Take
Modes
Different
Worn
Wit
Dresses
Turn
Wonder
Turns

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
Alexander Pope
Image
Expression is the dress of thought.
Alexander Pope
Image
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
Alexander Pope
Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Alexander Pope
Image
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
Alexander Pope
Image
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
Alexander Pope
Image
Hope springs eternal.
Alexander Pope
Image
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
Alexander Pope
Image
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
Image
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
Alexander Pope
Image
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
Alexander Pope
Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
Alexander Pope
Image
With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
Alexander Pope
Image
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
Alexander Pope
Image
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
Alexander Pope
Image
An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
Alexander Pope
Image
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Alexander Pope