Alexander Pope Quotes

We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope
Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Alexander Pope
They dream in courtship but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.
Alexander Pope
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.
Alexander Pope
True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.
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What so tedious as a twice-told tale?
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.
Alexander Pope
Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.
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One truth is clear Whatever is is right.
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The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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He that would pun would pick a pocket.
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In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
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Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
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All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.
Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Men would be angels angels would be gods.
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Order is Heaven's first law.
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An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
Alexander Pope
Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
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Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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All gardening is landscape painting.
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Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
Alexander Pope
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Alexander Pope
He that would pun would pick a pocket.
Alexander Pope
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
Alexander Pope
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
Alexander Pope
All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope
A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.
Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be.
Alexander Pope
The ruling passion be it what it will The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
Order is Heaven's first law.
Alexander Pope
An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
Alexander Pope
Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
All gardening is landscape painting.
Alexander Pope
Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Alexander Pope
Light quirks of music broken and uneven make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
Alexander Pope
Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Know then thyself presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
Alexander Pope