Quote #113
This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Alexander Pope
- True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
- A god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.
- Passions:are the gales of life:
- A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- Teach me to feel another's woe, To right the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
- Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
- If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!
- You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.