Alexander Pope1688–1744The quotations of
Alexander Pope
English poet
1688–1744
27 quotes, most often on Friendship, Clever Jabs and Love. Part of the Poets collection.
- Thoughts on Various Subjects, in Miscellanies (1727)
I am his Highness’ Dog at Kew;
Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?“Epigram. Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, which I gave to His Royal Highness” (1738)Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild;
In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.“Epitaph on Gay” (1733), lines 1-2. Reported in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 818Unblemish’d let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!The Temple of Fame (1711), Closing lineNor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call;
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.The Temple of Fame (1711), Line 513Let such, such only tread this sacred floor,
Who dare to love their country and be poor.Inscription on the entrance to his grotto in Twickenham, published in “Verses on a Grotto by the River Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars and Minerals”, line 14, (written 1740, published 1741)- The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Preface
- Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be bless’dAn Essay on Man (1733–1734), Epistle IIn context- An Essay on Man (1733–1734), Epistle IIn context
