Alexander Pope Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

  Alexander Pope

  Kindness, Men, Doe

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “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 by William Roscoe, esq”, p.188

• 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.

• The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Occupy Yourself, Literature

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

• Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

  Alexander Pope

  Literature, Praise, Satire

  William Lisle Bowles, Alexander Pope (1820). “A reply to an "Unsentimental sort of critic,": the reviewer of "Spence's Anecdotes" in the Quarterly review for October [i.e. July] 1820; otherwise to a certain critic and grocer, the family of the Bowleses!!”, p.15

• All nature is but art unknown to thee.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Nature, Literature

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

• The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Differences, Vices

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.87

• Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Lying, Character

  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.33

• 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)

• But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

  Alexander Pope

  Temptation, Literature, Satan

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.266

• The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Literature, Conquer

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)

• Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Lasts, Firsts

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.89

• A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Religion, Finals

  Alexander Pope (1999). “The Dunciad: In Four Books”, Longman Publishing Group

• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

  Alexander Pope

  Humor, Literature, Form

• 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

  Alexander Pope

  Nice, Stupid, Literature

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Men, Psychology

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

• Never find fault with the absent.

  Alexander Pope

  Faults, Literature, Absence

• Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Men, Use

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.74

• Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Reflection, Remembrance

  Alexander Pope, “An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1”

• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, Children, Law

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 275

• Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

  Alexander Pope

  Law, Giving, Literature

  Alexander Pope (1794). “The works of Alexander Pope, with remarks and illustrations. By G. Wakefield”, p.245

• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Literature, Easy

  "Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men". Book by Samuel Arthur Bent, p. 451, 1887.

• A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

  Alexander Pope

  Perfect, Judging, Literature

  Alexander Pope (1764). “An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton”, p.111

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