Alexander Pope Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Thinking, Amusement

• Order is heaven's first law.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Math, Order

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

• False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Time, Money

• O happiness! our being's end and aim!
  Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name:
  That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
  For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 1

• What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Style, Would Be

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 418

• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Sunshine, Obscurity

  "Eloisa to Abelard" l. 207 (1717)

• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

• Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Laughter, Truth

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”

• Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Kings, Bliss

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.63

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