Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope: A person who...

Alexander Pope: A person who...

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor...

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Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

Alexander Pope: All seems infected...

All seems infected that th'infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.


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Alexander Pope: One simile, that...

Alexander Pope: One simile, that...

One simile, that solitary shines
In a dry desert of a thousand lines.


Source:...

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Alexander Pope: To err is...

Alexander Pope: To err is...

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Source: An Essay on Criticism.
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Alexander Pope: Trust not yourself,...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe.

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Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

The learn'd is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.


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Alexander Pope: True wit is...

Alexander Pope: True wit is...

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well...

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Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.


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Alexander Pope: Order is heav'ns...

Alexander Pope: Order is heav'ns...

Order is heav'ns first law.

Source: An Essay on Man
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21...

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Alexander Pope: Not to go...

Alexander Pope: Not to go...

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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Alexander Pope: Some people will...

Alexander Pope: Some people will...

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

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Alexander Pope: Is there no...

Alexander Pope: Is there no...

Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?


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Alexander Pope: Such laboured nothings,...

Alexander Pope: Such laboured nothings,...

Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style,
Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned...

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Alexander Pope: No one should...

Alexander Pope: No one should...

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

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Alexander Pope: Histories are more...

Alexander Pope: Histories are more...

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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Alexander Pope: Sir, I admit...

Alexander Pope: Sir, I admit...

Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every...

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Alexander Pope: Of all the...

Alexander Pope: Of all the...

Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with...

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Alexander Pope: Some daemon stole...

Alexander Pope: Some daemon stole...

Some daemon stole my pen (forgive th' offence)
And once betrayed me into common sense.
Else all my prose and...

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Alexander Pope: So much they...

Alexander Pope: So much they...

So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng
By chance go right, they purposely go...

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Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their...

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