Quotes by Alexander Pope
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
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.
'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Health consists with temperance alone.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
