Alexander Pope Quotes

In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride s...

What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate’er we lose?And trust m...

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body Nature is and God the soul.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that ...

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.

Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me.

Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ...

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in ob...

Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Know then thyself presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.

The ruling passion be it what it will the ruling passion conquers reason still.

The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

'Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possess...

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Men would be angels Angels would be gods.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend...

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.

For fools admire but men of sense approve.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Men would be angels angels would be gods.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.

One truth is clear Whatever is is right.

He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.

Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or...

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; ...

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's di...

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow dra...

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something w...

Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles...

Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land...

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first ...

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, an...

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if...

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Order is heaven's first law.

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride sti...

Know then thyself; presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus...

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine o...

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense.