“Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass - That secret to each fool - that he's an ass. The truth once… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True, conscious honor is to feel no sin, he's armed without that's innocent within; be this thy screen, and this thy wall… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good 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
