No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — 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
In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. 'Tis not enough no… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dang'rous… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“In ev'ry work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the… — 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
“And while self-love each jealous writer rules, Contending wits become the sport of fools: But still the worst with most regret commend,… — 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
