Alexander Pope quotes

Alexander Pope was an English poet and satirist, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the early 18th century. His mastery of the heroic couplet and sharp wit made his works influential in English literature. He is best remembered for poems such as "The Rape of the Lock" and his translation of Homer. Here are 367 of his quotes:

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. (Alexander Pope)
The most positive men are the most credulous. View quote
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To err is human; to forgive, divine. View quote
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. View quote
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. View quote
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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
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! View quote
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Order is natures first law. View quote
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. View quote
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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
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. View quote
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. View quote
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. View quote
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. View quote
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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
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. View quote
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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
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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
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An honest man's the noblest work of God. View quote
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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
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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

Alexander Pope

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: May 21, 1688
Died: May 30, 1744
Quotes count: 367
Wikipedia: Alexander Pope

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