Quotes By Alexander Pope

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Health consists with temperance alone.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Never find fault with the absent.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!