Alexander Pope

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

— Alexander Pope

So perish all who do the like again.

— Alexander Pope

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

— Alexander Pope

Expression is the dress of thought.

— Alexander Pope

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

— Alexander Pope

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

— Alexander Pope

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

— Alexander Pope

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

— Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

— Alexander Pope

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

— Alexander Pope

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

— Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

— Alexander Pope

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

— Alexander Pope

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

— Alexander Pope

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

— Alexander Pope

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To…

— Alexander Pope

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they…

— Alexander Pope

Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all…

— Alexander Pope

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

— Alexander Pope

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

— Alexander Pope

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

— Alexander Pope

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of…

— Alexander Pope

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

— 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

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues…

— Alexander Pope

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever…

— Alexander Pope

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but…

— Alexander Pope

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property,…

— Alexander Pope

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee…

— Alexander Pope

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may…

— Alexander Pope

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading…

— Alexander Pope

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

— Alexander Pope

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

— Alexander Pope

Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

— Alexander Pope

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

— Alexander Pope

A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

— Alexander Pope

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

— Alexander Pope

Superstition is the spleen of the soul.

— Alexander Pope

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope