Alexander Pope Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Alexander Pope (1825). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.198

• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, God, Nature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 267

• 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

• Passions are the gales of life.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Passion, Literature

  Attributed to Alexander Pope by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in a letter to Jonathan Swift, March 29, 1730.

• Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
  Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Life, Sexy

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

• How vast a memory has Love!

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Life, Memories

  Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.84

• 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

  Life, Passion, Age

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.223

• 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

• Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Law, Made

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.241

• First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
  By her just standard, which is still the same:
  Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
  One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
  Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
  At once the source, and end, and test of art.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Change, Art

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 68

• Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
  You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
  Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Play, Age

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Colley Cibber (1804). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with his last corrections, additions and improvements”, p.105

• Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
  Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Heart, Sheep

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

• Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
  To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
  To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
  Is there no bright reversion in the sky
  For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady' (1717) l. 9

• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, States, Middle

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 1.

• Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Peculiar, Earth

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 63

• Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
  And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Lying, Venus

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.180

• Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
  And make two lovers happy.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Two, Space

  'Martinus Scriblerus...or The Art of Sinking in Poetry' ch. 11 (Miscellanies, 1727)

• Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
  They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Sea, Return

  Alexander Pope (1811). “An Essay on Man”, p.80

• 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

• O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
  And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Eye, Tongue

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.23

• Like following life through creatures you dissect,
  You lose it in the moment you detect.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Moments, Following

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.180

• Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
  And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Grace, Zeal

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.244

• Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
  'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Affliction, Taught

  Alexander Pope, “Eloisa To Abelard”

• She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
  To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.
  To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
  To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
  Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,
  Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Morning, Prayer

  'Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation' (of King George I, 1715) (1717)

• One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
  Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Sight, Swim

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.275

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