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Alexander Pope Quotes about Happiness

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Thinking, Amusement

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Kings, Bliss
Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.63

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

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Time, Money

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Laughter, Men
'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Style, Would Be
'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 418

Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Math, Order
1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Sunshine, Obscurity
"Eloisa to Abelard" l. 207 (1717)

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope
Happiness, Laughter, Truth
Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”

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