Quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English poet

Lived from: 1688 - 1744

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 may 1688 Died: 30 may 1744

  • Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
  • Let those teach others who themselves excel; I and censure freely, who have written well.
  • Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
  • One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
  • Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
  • 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.
  • Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
  • True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
  • To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
  • Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
  • Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
  • The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
  • On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
  • There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
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  • Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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  • A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
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  • A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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  • A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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  • 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.
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  • A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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  • Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
    Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725)
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  • Act well your part; there all honor lies.
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  • All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Essay on Man 1, 276
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  • All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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  • All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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  • An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
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  • An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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  • An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
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  • And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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  • And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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  • And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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  • At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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  • At every word a reputation dies.
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What are the most famous quotes from Alexander Pope?

The two most famous quotes from Alexander Pope are:

  • "Gentle dullness ever loves a joke."
  • "A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."

When did Alexander Pope live?

Alexander Pope was born in 1688 and died in the year 1744.