Alexander Pope Quotes


113 quotes:

"Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?"
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Most authors steal their works, or buy."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Most women have no characters at all."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every foe."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Retirement Quotes
"At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Prejudice Quotes
"A little bit of knowledge"
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes
"An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Opinions Quotes
"Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Motivational Quotes
"Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Mercy Quotes
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Learning Quotes
"Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"Curse on all laws, but those that love has made."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Law And Lawyers Quotes
"It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Judgment And Judges Quotes
"If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great."
Author: Pope Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes
"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still"
Author: Pope Quotes Category: History Quotes

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