Quotes By Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope
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.
Alexander Pope