Alexander Pope
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.Collection: Saint
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.Collection: Order
Time conquers all, and we must time obey.Collection: Time
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?Collection: Country
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.Collection: Alps
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.Collection: Men
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.Collection: People
That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the Breeze, Glows in the Stars, and blossoms in the Trees... Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part... Submit - in this, or any other Sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood... All partial Evil, universal Good.Collection: Art
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.Collection: Death
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.Collection: Daughter
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.Collection: Confused
How vast a memory has Love!Collection: Love
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.Collection: Sex
Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?Collection: Care
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?Collection: War
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.Collection: Men
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.Collection: Age
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.Collection: Wise
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.Collection: Men
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.Collection: Business
Most authors steal their works, or buy.Collection: Art
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.Collection: Nature
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.Collection: Art
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.Collection: Strong
It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.Collection: Thinking
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.Collection: Knows
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?Collection: Judgment
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.Collection: Wise
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.Collection: Sex
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.Collection: Husband
But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.Collection: World
Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?Collection: Two
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.Collection: Brother
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).Collection: Wise
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.Collection: Silence
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.Collection: Faults
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.Collection: Pride
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.Collection: Friendship
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.Collection: Expression