Standards Quotes 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…

— 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…

— Alexander Pope

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

— Alexander Pope

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

— Alexander Pope

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

— Alexander Pope

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

— Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— 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,…

— Alexander Pope

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

— 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…

— Alexander Pope