Alexander Pope Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Thinking, Amusement

• Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Pain, Women

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

• Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Pain, Hate

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton”, p.79

• 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

• 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.

• Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Heart, Men

  1735 Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215-8.

• Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Lying, Joy

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.154

• When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Alive, Charity

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.159

• Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Errors, Needs

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.148

• Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
  First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
  Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
  Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
  Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
  Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Learning, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

• Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
  Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

  Alexander Pope

  Evil, Pleasure, Understood

  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.67

• Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Long, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.419

• Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
  And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Hands, Pleasure

  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.79

• I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

  Alexander Pope

  Ambition, People, Emptiness

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

• Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
  Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

  Alexander Pope

  Contentment, Ease, Action

  Alexander Pope (1752). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays”, p.124

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