Alexander Pope Quotes about Passion

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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Reason, Undone

Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.222

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Strength, Time, Passion

Alexander Pope (1812). “The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson”, p.228

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Literature, Conquer

Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Alexander Pope

Life, Passion, Age

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.223

Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

Life, Passion, Literature

Attributed to Alexander Pope by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in a letter to Jonathan Swift, March 29, 1730.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Differences, Giving

Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

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.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Chaos

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.48

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Masters, Breasts

Alexander Pope (1748). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With the commentary and notes of mr. Warburton”, p.59

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Fool, Sincere

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 174

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

Alexander Pope

War, Passion, Bears

Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.161

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

Alexander Pope

Ocean, Passion, Wind

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.69

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Contentment, Fame

Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.20