Wells Quotes by Alexander Pope

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

— Alexander Pope

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

— Alexander Pope

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

— Alexander Pope

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

— Alexander Pope

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

— Alexander Pope

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like…

— Alexander Pope

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

— Alexander Pope

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

— Alexander Pope

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property,…

— Alexander Pope

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

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry…

— Alexander Pope

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but…

— Alexander Pope

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off,…

— Alexander Pope

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are…

— Alexander Pope

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can…

— Alexander Pope

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a…

— Alexander Pope

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;…

— Alexander Pope

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And…

— Alexander Pope