Alexander Pope Quotes

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish

Whenever a man is alone with a woman the devil makes a third

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.