Alexander Pope

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

— Alexander Pope

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

— Alexander Pope

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

— Alexander Pope

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

— Alexander Pope

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

— Alexander Pope

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

— Alexander Pope

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

— Alexander Pope

True self-love and social are the same.

— Alexander Pope

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

— Alexander Pope

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

— Alexander Pope

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

— Alexander Pope

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

— Alexander Pope

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

— Alexander Pope

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

— Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves

— Alexander Pope

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

— Alexander Pope

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All…

— 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

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd…

— Alexander Pope

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at…

— 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,…

— Alexander Pope

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's…

— Alexander Pope

Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,…

— Alexander Pope

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never…

— Alexander Pope

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible,…

— Alexander Pope

Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,…

— Alexander Pope

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Mary: How…

— Alexander Pope

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he…

— Alexander Pope

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,…

— Alexander Pope

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the…

— Alexander Pope

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-…

— Alexander Pope

Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call

— Alexander Pope

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

— Alexander Pope

“Errare è umano, perdonare divino.”

— Alexander Pope

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

— Alexander Pope

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

— Alexander Pope

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

— Alexander Pope

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

— Alexander Pope

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

— Alexander Pope