Quote

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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
Estates
Figure
Figures
Poverty
Small
Great
Bugbear
World
Estate

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
Alexander Pope
Image
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope
Image
Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
Alexander Pope
Image
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Alexander Pope
Image
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Alexander Pope
Image
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Alexander Pope
Image
Hope springs eternal.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Alexander Pope
Image
With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Alexander Pope
Image
All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
Alexander Pope
Image
To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Alexander Pope
Image
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
Alexander Pope
Image
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
Alexander Pope
Image
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
Alexander Pope