Alexander Pope Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of Alexander Pope quotations and sayings. He was an English poet in the 18th-century and is most well-known for his satirical verse and his translation of Homer.

“’T is true,’t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.”
– Alexandra Pope

“A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country’s cause?”
– Alexandra Pope

“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”
– Alexandra Pope

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
– Alexandra Pope

“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”
– Alexandra Pope

“A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.”
– Alexandra Pope

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”
– Alexandra Pope

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
– Alexandra Pope

“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.”
– Alexandra Pope

“All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.”
– Alexandra Pope

“An honest man’s the noblest work of God.”
– Alexandra Pope

“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”
– Alexandra Pope

“And die of nothing but a rage to live.”
– Alexandra Pope

“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.”
– Alexandra Pope

“At ev’ry word a reputation dies.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.”
– Alexandra Pope

“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”
– Alexandra Pope

“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice — A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
– Alexandra Pope

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
– Alexandra Pope

“For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.”
– Alexandra Pope

“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.”
– Alexandra Pope

“Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.”
– Alexandra Pope

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