Alexander Pope Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Death, Fancy

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101

• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135

• Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Wealth, Fame

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.105

• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

  Alexander Pope

  Names, Church, Fame

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.261

• Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

  Alexander Pope

  Faults, Blame, Praise

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.88

• Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

  Alexander Pope

  Favors, Fame, Ifs

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.230

• Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown
  Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
  As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Writing, Numbers

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274

• Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

  Alexander Pope

  Favors, Dignity, Fame

• Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
  Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Contentment, Fame

  Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.20

• What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

  Alexander Pope

  Fame, Breaths

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.446

• Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  Alexander Pope

  Honest, Fame, Let Me

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.132

• Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

  Alexander Pope

  War, Greek, Gold

  Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.166

• Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Fame, Deathbed

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