Alexander Pope Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• 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

• 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.

• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  Alexander Pope

  Strength, Time, Passion

  Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

• 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

• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Confused, Fall

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

• In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Passion, Men

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.207-10.

• What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Reason, Undone

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.222

• Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Clue, Found

  1734 Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.174-8.

• 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)

• chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Chaos

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.48

• And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Masters, Breasts

  Alexander Pope (1748). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With the commentary and notes of mr. Warburton”, p.59

• 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

• Intestine war no more our passions wage,
  And giddy factions bear away their rage.

  Alexander Pope

  War, Passion, Bears

  Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.161

• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Differences, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

• Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Fool, Sincere

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 174

• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Passion, Wind

  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.69

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