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.

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.

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

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.