Alexander Pope quotes

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. (Alexander Pope)
To err is human; to forgive, divine. View quote
Alexander Pope
The most positive men are the most credulous. View quote
Alexander Pope
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. View quote
Alexander Pope
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. View quote
Alexander Pope
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. View quote
Alexander Pope
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
Alexander Pope
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! View quote
Alexander Pope
Order is natures first law. View quote
Alexander Pope
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. View quote
Alexander Pope
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. (Alexander Pope)
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. View quote
Alexander Pope
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. View quote
Alexander Pope
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. View quote
Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. View quote
Alexander Pope
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. View quote
Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. View quote
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies. View quote
Alexander Pope
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. View quote
Alexander Pope
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. View quote
Alexander Pope
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. (Alexander Pope)
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. View quote
Alexander Pope
An honest man's the noblest work of God. View quote
Alexander Pope
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one. View quote
Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. View quote
Alexander Pope