Books Quotes by Alexander Pope

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

— Alexander Pope

“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

— Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

— Alexander Pope

Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

— Alexander Pope

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

— Alexander Pope

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

— Alexander Pope

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek…

— 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

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from…

— Alexander Pope

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with…

— Alexander Pope

“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a…

— Alexander Pope

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.…

— Alexander Pope

“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our…

— Alexander Pope

To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is…

— Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And…

— Alexander Pope

“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from…

— Alexander Pope

“And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend,…

— Alexander Pope

“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.

— Alexander Pope

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope