Quotes By Alexander Pope

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.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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.

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!

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.