Famous Alexander Pope Quotations

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"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."
by Alexander Pope
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
by Alexander Pope
"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
by Alexander Pope
"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."
by Alexander Pope
"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."
by Alexander Pope
"The worst of madmen is a saint run mad."
by Alexander Pope
"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
by Alexander Pope
"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
by Alexander Pope
"And die of nothing but a rage to live."
by Alexander Pope
"And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too."
by Alexander Pope
"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
by Alexander Pope
"Health consists with temperance alone."
by Alexander Pope
"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."
by Alexander Pope
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
by Alexander Pope
"Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed."
by Alexander Pope
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."
by Alexander Pope
"Passions are the gales of life."
by Alexander Pope
"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."
by Alexander Pope
"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."
by Alexander Pope
"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."
by Alexander Pope
"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance."
by Alexander Pope
"Men would be angels, angels would be gods."
by Alexander Pope
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
by Alexander Pope
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
by Alexander Pope
"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
by Alexander Pope
"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
by Alexander Pope
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."
by Alexander Pope
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
by Alexander Pope
"Never find fault with the absent."
by Alexander Pope
"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."
by Alexander Pope
"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do."
by Alexander Pope
"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
by Alexander Pope
"A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead."
by Alexander Pope
"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants."
by Alexander Pope
"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
by Alexander Pope
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."
by Alexander Pope
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
by Alexander Pope
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
by Alexander Pope
"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
by Alexander Pope
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
by Alexander Pope
"All nature is but art unknown to thee."
by Alexander Pope
"An honest man is the noblest work of God."
by Alexander Pope
"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."
by Alexander Pope
"And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too."
by Alexander Pope
"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."
by Alexander Pope
"At ev'ry word a reputation dies."
by Alexander Pope
"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
by Alexander Pope
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
by Alexander Pope
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
by Alexander Pope
"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."
by Alexander Pope
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
by Alexander Pope
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
by Alexander Pope
"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"
by Alexander Pope
"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
by Alexander Pope
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame"
by Alexander Pope
"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
by Alexander Pope
"Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true."
by Alexander Pope
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."
by Alexander Pope
"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men."
by Alexander Pope
"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
by Alexander Pope
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
by Alexander Pope
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
by Alexander Pope
"Gentle dullness ever loves a joke."
by Alexander Pope
"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
by Alexander Pope
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
by Alexander Pope
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."
by Alexander Pope
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one."
by Alexander Pope
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
by Alexander Pope
"Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies."
by Alexander Pope
"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."
by Alexander Pope
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."
by Alexander Pope
"Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
by Alexander Pope
"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
by Alexander Pope
"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
by Alexander Pope
"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd"
by Alexander Pope
"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"
by Alexander Pope
"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."
by Alexander Pope
"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."
by Alexander Pope
"In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."
by Alexander Pope
"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."
by Alexander Pope
"In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
by Alexander Pope
"Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools."
by Alexander Pope
"It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."
by Alexander Pope
"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out."
by Alexander Pope
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
by Alexander Pope
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man."
by Alexander Pope
"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer"
by Alexander Pope
"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."
by Alexander Pope
"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return."
by Alexander Pope
"Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!"
by Alexander Pope
"Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind."
by Alexander Pope
"Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."
by Alexander Pope
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
by Alexander Pope
"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
by Alexander Pope
"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot."
by Alexander Pope
"Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake."
by Alexander Pope
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
by Alexander Pope
"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."
by Alexander Pope
"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."
by Alexander Pope
"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
by Alexander Pope


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