Alexander Pope Quotes

"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Trust, Friend)

"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Being, Politeness, Self)

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Art, Dance, Chance, Writing)

"To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake."
- Alexander Pope

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
- Alexander Pope

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, God, Road)

"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Now, Poor, Satan)

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Thought, Reflection, Remembrance, Sense)

"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Gods, Angels, Pride)

"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Disguise, Praise, Satire)

"Passions are the gales of life."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Life)

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Art, Wit)

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Time)

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Doctors, Doubt)

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Science, Art, Genius, Will, Wit)

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Vengeance, Wrongs)

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Life, Ocean, Passion)

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Man, Manners, Simplicity, Wit)

"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Dance)

"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Actions, Kindness, Man)

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Love, Friend, Being, Hate, Man, Woman)

"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Saying, Today, Words, Wrong, Yesterday)

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Women, Lie, Man)

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Faults, Revenge)

"Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed."
- Alexander Pope

"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Gain, Madness, Party)

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."
- Alexander Pope

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Simplicity, Wit)

"The worst of madmen is a saint run mad."
- Alexander Pope

"The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: World)

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Change, Nature, Destiny)

"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg."
- Alexander Pope

"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Ambition, Knave)

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Passion, Reason, Will)

"The proper study of Mankind is Man."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Man, Mankind, Study)

"The most positive men are the most credulous."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Positive)

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, Fool)

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Judges, May)

"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Virtue, Content)

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Virtue, Difference, Vice)

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Diet, Health, Anxiety, Disease)

"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Fault, Mercy)

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: People, Reason, Will)

"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Time, Men, Example, Fact, Fools, Old, Praise, Youth)

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, God, Laws, Night)

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Dance)

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Act, Honor, Lies, Shame)

"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."
- Alexander Pope

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Education, Mind)

"Woman's at best a contradiction still."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Contradiction, Woman)

"Wit is the lowest form of humor."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Humor, Wit)

"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be."
- Alexander Pope

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Dream, Courtship)

"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Eyes, Man, World)

"And die of nothing but a rage to live."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nothing)

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Art, Work, Theories)

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Man, Nothing)

"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, Law)

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Soul, Eyes, May, Merit, Pretty, Sight)

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: First, Old)

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Now, Poor, Satan)

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Truth, Lie)

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Soul, Merit, Sight)

"And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too."
- Alexander Pope

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Work, God, Man)

"Never find fault with the absent."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Fault)

"All nature is but art unknown to thee."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Art, Nature)

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Gods, Angels)

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Act, Lies)

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Reputation, Word)

"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Government, Fools)

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Dogs, Fidelity, Friends)

"Health consists with temperance alone."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Health, Temperance)

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Care, Content, Man)

"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Wealth, Grace)

"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke."
- Alexander Pope

"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Blind, Fate, Future, State)

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Faith, Life, Fight, Right, Wrong)

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, God, Soul, Body)

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Fear, Angels, Fools)

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Fear, Angels, Fools)

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Fools, Sense)

"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Honor, Merit, Praise)

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, Extremes, Man)

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Education, Mind)

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Genius, Folly, Sense, Taste)

"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Thoughts)

"I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: End, Gain, Madness, Mankind, Party)

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Business, Character, Man)

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: First, Old, Will, Words)

"Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Fools, Pride, Vice)

"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Wit)

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Happiness, Truth, Virtue, Man)

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: God, Man, Mankind, Study)

"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Applause, Laws, Senate)

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Love, Sense, Sin)

"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: God, Clouds, Mind, Poor, Wind)

"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Desire, Man, Want)

"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do."
- Alexander Pope

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Doubt)

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Cunning)

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: World)

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Hope)

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Hope, Man)

"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Nature, God, Causes, Fate, Nothing, Providence)

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Deep, Learning, Spring, Taste)

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Business, Bees, Curiosity, Labor, Will)

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men)

"Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!"
- Alexander Pope