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Alexander Pope
498 quotes
“To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fine by defect, and delicately weak.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Atossa, cursed with every granted prayer, Childless with all her children, wants an heir; To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store, Or wanders heaven-directed to the poor.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Most women have no characters at all.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never shows she rules.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And mistress of herself though china fall.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Woman 's at best a contradiction still.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“_P._ What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. _B._ What more? _P._ Meat, fine clothes, and fire.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But thousands die without or this or that,-- Die, and endow a college or a cat.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Extremes in Nature equal good produce; Extremes in man concur to general use.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Rise, honest muse! and sing The Man of Ross.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ye little stars! hide your diminish'd rays.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is with our judgments as our watches,--none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules,-- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid to join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source