Alexander Pope

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our…

— Alexander Pope

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in…

— Alexander Pope

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

— Alexander Pope

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

— Alexander Pope

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

— Alexander Pope

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

— Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— Alexander Pope

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading…

— Alexander Pope

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

— Alexander Pope

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of…

— Alexander Pope

Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:

— Alexander Pope

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One…

— Alexander Pope

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

— Alexander Pope

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

— Alexander Pope

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

— Alexander Pope

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

— Alexander Pope

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres'…

— Alexander Pope

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Mary: How…

— Alexander Pope

“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.”

— Alexander Pope

And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

— Alexander Pope

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

— Alexander Pope

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most…

— Alexander Pope