Alexander Pope Quotes about War

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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alexander Pope

Peace, War, Names

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Alexander Pope

War, Delight, Care

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Alexander Pope

War, Fighting, Might

Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.259

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?

Alexander Pope

War, Greek, Gold

Alexander Pope (1787). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.166

There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.

Alexander Pope

Stars, War, Fall

Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.244

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

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Alexander Pope

Summer, Wise, War

Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233