Alexander Pope Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

  Alexander Pope

  Sin, Offense, Offence

  Alexander Pope (1848). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author”, p.136

• How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

  Alexander Pope

  Love, Sin, Offence

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136

• Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown
  Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own?
  As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Writing, Numbers

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.274

• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

  Alexander Pope

  Writing, Parent, Ink

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Routledge

• Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
  Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
  . . . .
  To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
  Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

  Alexander Pope

  Night, Dancing, Age

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.373

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