Quotes By Alexander Pope

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Order is heaven's first law.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.