--- title: "14 Faults Quotes By Alexander Pope" description: "14 Faults quotes by Alexander Pope. Plus more from Alexander Pope and more Faults sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/alexander-pope-235_faults_whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hat_2509741.png" --- > [Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hate-him-mortally/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/alexander-pope-235_faults_whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hat_2509741.png) > [What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/what-is-it-to-be-wise-tis-but-to-know-how-little-can-be-known-to-see/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bd/alexander-pope-235_being-wise_what-is-it-to-be-wise-tis-but-to-know-ho_829987.png) > [Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/avoid-extremes-and-shun-the-fault-of-such-who-still-are-pleas-d-too/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99e/alexander-pope-235_extremes_avoid-extremes-and-shun-the-fault-of-suc_1742617.png) > [To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-be-angry-is-to-revenge-the-faults-of-others-upon-ourselves/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ea/alexander-pope-235_anger_to-be-angry-is-to-revenge-the-faults-of_2644769.png) > [It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/it-is-not-so-much-the-being-exempt-from-faults-as-having-overcome/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/531/alexander-pope-235_advantage_it-is-not-so-much-the-being-exempt-from_903380.png) > [To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-be-angry-is-to-revenge-the-faults-of-others-on-ourselves/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f96/alexander-pope-235_anger_to-be-angry-is-to-revenge-the-faults-of_1988897.png) > [Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/ambition-first-sprung-from-your-blest-abodes-the-glorious-fault-of/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/alexander-pope-235_abode_ambition-first-sprung-from-your-blest-ab_1041820.png) > [A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/a-perfect-judge-will-read-each-work-of-wit-with-the-same-spirit-that-2/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c7/alexander-pope-235_books_a-perfect-judge-will-read-each-work-of-w_1863724.jpg) > [Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/careless-of-censure-nor-too-fond-of-fame-still-pleased-to-praise-yet/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b80/alexander-pope-235_blame_careless-of-censure-nor-too-fond-of-fame_1603040.png) > [Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/yet-graceful-ease-and-sweetness-void-of-pride-might-hide-her-faults/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b52/alexander-pope-235_ease_yet-graceful-ease-and-sweetness-void-of_1601950.png) > [The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/the-best-way-to-prove-the-clearness-of-our-mind-is-by-showing-its/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9e/alexander-pope-235_best-way_the-best-way-to-prove-the-clearness-of-o_3103552.jpg) > [I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/i-think-a-good-deal-may-be-said-to-extenuate-the-fault-of-bad-poets/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91d/alexander-pope-235_can-not_i-think-a-good-deal-may-be-said-to-exten_488973.png) > [Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/plays-round-the-head-but-comes-not-to-the-heart-one-self-approving/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebf/alexander-pope-235_advantage_plays-round-the-head-but-comes-not-to-th_2661172.jpg) > [Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/whoever-thinks-a-faultless-piece-to-see-thinks-what-ne-er-was-nor-is/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40a/alexander-pope-235_applause_whoever-thinks-a-faultless-piece-to-see_1130719.png) ## Other authors on Faults ## More by Alexander Pope > [How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/how-do-we-know-that-we-have-a-right-to-kill-creatures-that-we-are-so/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-wake-the-soul-by-tender-strokes-of-art-to-raise-the-genius-and-to/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [A mighty maze! But not without a plan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/a-mighty-maze-but-not-without-a-plan/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/let-such-teach-others-who-themselves-excel-and-censure-freely-who/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/for-i-who-hold-sage-homer-s-rule-the-best-welcome-the-coming-speed/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/like-following-life-through-creatures-you-dissect-you-lose-it-in-the/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/when-two-people-compliment-each-other-with-the-choice-of-anything/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/such-labour-d-nothings-in-so-strange-a-style-amaze-th-unlearn-d-and/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/charms-strike-the-sight-but-merit-wins-the-soul/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/she-went-from-opera-park-assembly-play-to-morning-walks-and-prayers/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/i-am-satisfied-to-trifle-away-my-time-rather-than-let-it-stick-by-me/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/the-greatest-advantage-i-know-of-being-thought-a-wit-by-the-world-is/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/then-say-not-man-s-imperfect-heav-n-in-fault-say-rather-man-s-as/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/first-follow-nature-and-your-judgment-frame-by-her-just-standard/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/who-shall-decide-when-doctors-disagree-and-soundest-casuists-doubt/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faults/alexander-pope/#itemlist", "name": "14 Faults Quotes By Alexander Pope", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexander Pope" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hate-him-mortally/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/alexander-pope-235_faults_whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hat_2509741.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/alexander-pope-235_faults_whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hat_2509741.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/alexander-pope-235_faults_whoe-er-he-be-that-tells-my-faults-i-hat_2509741.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.” — Alexander Pope", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What is it to be wise? 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