Alexander Pope Quotes are available here. Who is Alexander Pope? He is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. Born in May 21, 1688, at London, United Kingdom and Died in May 30, 1744, at Radnor House Independent School, Twickenham, United Kingdom
To err is human; to forgive, divine. –Alexander Pope
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. –Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. –Alexander Pope
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. –Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. –Alexander Pope
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. –Alexander Pope
Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! –Alexander Pope
The most positive men are the most credulous. –Alexander Pope
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. –Alexander Pope
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. –Alexander Pope
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. –Alexander Pope
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. –Alexander Pope
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. –Alexander Pope
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. –Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. –Alexander Pope
Never find fault with the absent. –Alexander Pope
Act well your part, there all the honour lies. –Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. –Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. –Alexander Pope
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. –Alexander Pope
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. –Alexander Pope
‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. –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. –Alexander Pope
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. –Alexander Pope
The proper study of Mankind is Man. –Alexander Pope
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! –Alexander Pope
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. –Alexander Pope
And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade. –Alexander Pope
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. –Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance. –Alexander Pope
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person. –Alexander Pope
An honest man’s the noblest work of God. –Alexander Pope
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. –Alexander Pope
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? –Alexander Pope
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. –Alexander Pope
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. –Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. –Alexander Pope
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. –Alexander Pope
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. –Alexander Pope
‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. –Alexander Pope
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead. –Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. –Alexander Pope
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. –Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. –Alexander Pope
Order is heaven’s first law. –Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. –Alexander Pope
Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. –Alexander Pope
All nature is but art unknown to thee. –Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. –Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. –Alexander Pope
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. –Alexander Pope
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. –Alexander Pope
On wrongs swift vengeance waits. –Alexander Pope
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. –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. –Alexander Pope
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. –Alexander Pope
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. –Alexander Pope
Wit is the lowest form of humor. –Alexander Pope
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. –Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. –Alexander Pope
Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance. –Alexander Pope
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. –Alexander Pope
Woman’s at best a contradiction still. –Alexander Pope
At ev’ry word a reputation dies. –Alexander Pope
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. –Alexander Pope
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. –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. –Alexander Pope
Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed. –Alexander Pope
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. –Alexander Pope
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. –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; aspiring to be angels men rebel. –Alexander Pope
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? –Alexander Pope
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? –Alexander Pope
Fools admire, but men of sense approve. –Alexander Pope
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. –Alexander Pope
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake. –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. –Alexander Pope
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. –Alexander Pope
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. –Alexander Pope
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God. –Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. –Alexander Pope
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. –Alexander Pope
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. –Alexander Pope
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place. –Alexander Pope
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use. –Alexander Pope
Passions are the gales of life. –Alexander Pope
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. –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. –Alexander Pope
Health consists with temperance alone. –Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. –Alexander Pope
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. –Alexander Pope
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. –Alexander Pope
And die of nothing but a rage to live. –Alexander Pope
The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. –Alexander Pope
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. –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. –Alexander Pope
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
Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can. –Alexander Pope
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. –Alexander Pope
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. –Alexander Pope
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. –Alexander Pope
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. –Alexander Pope
A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest. –Alexander Pope
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. –Alexander Pope
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! –Alexander Pope
If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business. –Alexander Pope
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. –Alexander Pope
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. –Alexander Pope
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. –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. –Alexander Pope
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. –Alexander Pope