Alexander Pope Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

• What then remains, but well our power to use,
  And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose?
  And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail,
  When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

  Alexander Pope

  Character, Air, Use

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.124

• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Vices, Haughtiness

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

• Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Pride, Void, Steps

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.259

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