Top 100 Pope Alexander Quotes

#1. A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #3198
#2. That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #8228
#3. Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #10929
#4. Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #13572
#5. As some to church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #17191
#6. Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #22294
#7. 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.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #23638
#8. Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #38748
#9. Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle
As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #42494
#10. While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #43822
#11. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #55527
#12. Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #56040
#13. Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #56684
#14. I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #57483
#15. A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #61683
#16. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #62211
#17. The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #62614
#18. Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #63942
#19. Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #67410
#20. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #67700
#21. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #73323
#22. By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
...
Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #75423
#23. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #79443
#24. See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #80162
#25. Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #80566
#26. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #85303
#27. Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #86187
#28. For when success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #90036
#29. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #91278
#30. Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #91642
#31. A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #93774
#32. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #99983
#33. Honour forbid! at whose unrivall'd shrine 105 Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! 110 How shall I, then, your helpless fame

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #100553
#34. What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ...

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #101273
#35. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #101806
#36. Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #102166
#37. Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #102477
#38. Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #102496
#39. Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #115717
#40. Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #117990
#41. On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #119292
#42. There is a majesty in simplicity.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #123785
#43. Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #124681
#44. Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #125278
#45. True self-love and social are the same.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #132100
#46. Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #132703
#47. Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #132890
#48. In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #133942
#49. Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #137565
#50. Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #137909
#51. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #142653
#52. Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #147291
#53. In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #149803
#54. There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #150295
#55. Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #151111
#56. Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #155046
#57. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.
But Health consists with Temperance alone,
And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #155398
#58. Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #156986
#59. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #158428
#60. And make each day a critic on the last.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #160043
#61. He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it. Pope Alexander

Barbara W. Tuchman

Pope Alexander Quotes #176361
#62. Celia
Celia, we know, is sixty-five,
Yet Celia's face is seventeen;
Thus winter in her breast must live,
While summer in her face is seen.
How cruel Celia's fate, who hence
Our heart's devotion cannot try;
Too pretty for our reverence,
Too ancient for our gallantry!

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #178229
#63. First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #182614
#64. Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #183948
#65. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #192864
#66. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #194365
#67. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #194917
#68. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,
Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #198575
#69. But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #200600
#70. Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #200756
#71. Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #201827
#72. How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air,
In his own grounds

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #202550
#73. So perish all who do the like again.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #206012
#74. At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #212644
#75. Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #212843
#76. What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than Hell to shun,
That, more than Heaven pursue.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #219914
#77. One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #227602
#78. The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #228189
#79. When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #230513
#80. Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,
Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #230963
#81. Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,
The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;
Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,
And Poets once had promis'd they should last.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #232555
#82. The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #236082
#83. Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

Pope Alexander Quotes #238472
#84. Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #238597
#85. True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #239011
#86. What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #251640
#87. Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #256085
#88. Intrepid then, o'er seas and lands he flew:
Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #257004
#89. Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #266742
#90. See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #266810
#91. There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #267090
#92. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #267265
#93. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #267955
#94. Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #268362
#95. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #272305
#96. And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #282551
#97. But touch me, and no minister so sore.
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the sad burthen of some merry song.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #284292
#98. Virtue may choose the high or low degree,
'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me;
Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #285764
#99. Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #290576
#100. Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,
Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,
With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,
And wander'd in the solitary shade.
The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd
Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

Alexander Pope

Pope Alexander Quotes #291459

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