What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
