Best Alexander Pope Quotations
- How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? Detest
- Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. Aviation
- Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. All
- If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly… Darkly
- Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! Best
- Die of a rose in aromatic pain. Aromatic
- Virtue alone is happiness below. Alone
- Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. Anna
- As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. Bottles
- I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as… All
- Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more… Advantage
- Who dare to love their country, and be poor. Country
- Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Bear
- Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in… Acting
- From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Art
- A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. Brave
- And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air. Air
- To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,… Art
- "With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart. Chloe
- Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake. Business
- Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Aid
- Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. Arrogance
- There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship. Friendship
- In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. Apathy
- Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts,… All
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