Alexander Pope Quotes

Order is heaven's first law... view

By: Alexander Pope

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe... view

By: Alexander Pope

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can... view

By: Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance... view

By: Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake... view

By: Alexander Pope

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God... view

By: Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor... view

By: Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought... view

By: Alexander Pope

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell.. view

By: Alexander Pope

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise... view

By: Alexander Pope

Passions are the gales of life... view

By: Alexander Pope

So vast is art, so narrow human wit... view

By: Alexander Pope

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after... view

By: Alexander Pope

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?.. view

By: Alexander Pope

One science only will one genius fit.. view

By: Alexander Pope

On wrongs swift vengeance waits... view

By: Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale... view

By: Alexander Pope

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild.. view

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

Not always actions show the man.. view

By: Alexander Pope

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... view

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... view

By: Alexander Pope

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can... view

By: Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves... view

By: Alexander Pope

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed... view

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit... view

By: Alexander Pope

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad... view

By: Alexander Pope

The world forgetting, by the world forgot... view

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... view

By: Alexander Pope

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg... view

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

The proper study of Mankind is Man... view

By: Alexander Pope

The most positive men are the most credulous... view

By: Alexander Pope

The learned is happy, nature to explore.. view

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever... view

By: Alexander Pope

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

By: Alexander Pope

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease... view

By: Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me... view

By: Alexander Pope