Alexander Pope

Never find fault with the absent.

— Alexander Pope

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

— Alexander Pope

There is a majesty in simplicity.

— Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

— Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

— Alexander Pope

And make each day a critic on the last.

— Alexander Pope

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

— Alexander Pope

Whatever is, is right.

— Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

— Alexander Pope

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

— Alexander Pope

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

— Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

— Alexander Pope

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

— Alexander Pope

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

— Alexander Pope

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

— Alexander Pope

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments…

— Alexander Pope

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal;…

— Alexander Pope

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

— Alexander Pope

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in,…

— Alexander Pope

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;…

— Alexander Pope

To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!

— Alexander Pope

By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires…

— Alexander Pope

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

— Alexander Pope

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from…

— Alexander Pope

“One all-extending soul connects each being, greatest with the least; made beast in aid of man, and man in aid of beast;…

— Alexander Pope

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at…

— Alexander Pope

But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call.…

— Alexander Pope

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their…

— Alexander Pope

See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to…

— Alexander Pope

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but…

— Alexander Pope

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great…

— Alexander Pope

“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the WHOLE, nor seek…

— Alexander Pope

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not…

— Alexander Pope

“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his…

— Alexander Pope

“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here…

— Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…

— Alexander Pope

“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

“But where's the man, who counsel can bestow, Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know? Unbias'd, or by favour…

— Alexander Pope

“So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th'eternal snows appear…

— Alexander Pope