Alexander Pope Quotes

"What will a child learn sooner than a song?"
-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

"Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed."
-Alexander Pope

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
-Alexander Pope in Actions quotes.

"Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet."
-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;."
-Alexander Pope

"See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,/ Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!"
-Alexander Pope

"It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."
-Alexander Pope

"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants."
-Alexander Pope

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
-Alexander Pope

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
-Alexander Pope

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
-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

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."
-Alexander Pope

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come."
-Alexander Pope

"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe."
-Alexander Pope in Trust quotes.

"The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves."
-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."
-Alexander Pope

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
-Alexander Pope

"One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."
-Alexander Pope

"An honest man is the noblest work of God."
-Alexander Pope

"Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss."
-Alexander Pope

"Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon."
-Alexander Pope

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
-Alexander Pope

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

"Man: the glory, jest, and riddle of the world."
-Alexander Pope