Quote

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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
Turned
Wits
Poet
Proved
Fool
Fools
Lasts
Plain
Last
Wit
Next
Poets
Firsts
Passed
First
Critics

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Alexander Pope
Image
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
Alexander Pope
Image
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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
A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
Alexander Pope
Image
Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
Alexander Pope
Image
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
Alexander Pope
Image
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
Alexander Pope
Image
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
Image
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope
Image
Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
Alexander Pope
Image
And not a vanity is given in vain.
Alexander Pope
Image
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander Pope
Image
This long disease, my life.
Alexander Pope
Image
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
Alexander Pope