All Alexander Pope Quotes
- Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Charmer
- Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. Conception
- Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. All
- Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. Abode
- What bosom beast not in his country's cause? Beast
- But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat. Cat
- Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. All
- He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Best
- Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men. Fondly
- He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. All
- Education forms the common mind. Common
- The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Echo
- Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place. Any
- In death a hero, as in life a friend! Death
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. Advantage
- Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. Censure
- Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Cursed
- A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Burns
- No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last. Breathe
- There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private. Adam
- Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. Age
- New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... Alps
- Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. All
- The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and… Accustom
- When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. Argument