Quote

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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
Ling
Varies
Swine
Vary
Instinct

More quotes by 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
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
Alexander Pope
Image
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
Image
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
Alexander Pope
Image
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
Alexander Pope
Image
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
Image
Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
Alexander Pope
Image
Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
Alexander Pope
Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
Alexander Pope
Image
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
Alexander Pope
Image
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
Alexander Pope
Image
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
Alexander Pope
Image
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
Alexander Pope
Image
All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
Alexander Pope
Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope
Image
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
Alexander Pope
Image
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
Alexander Pope