You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. — 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
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. — 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… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of… — 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
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — 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
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just… — 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
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it — 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
