Quotes by Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
Passions are the gales of life.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
At every word a reputation dies.
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Order is heaven's first law.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
