Alexander Pope Quotes

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance.”

“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”

“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.”

Alexander Pope Quotes :

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

“True wit is nature to advantage dress’d; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”

“The proper study of mankind is man.”

“What mighty contests rise from trivial things.”

“Riches like insects, while concealed they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.”

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”

“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.”

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

“To love, and be loved, is to feel the sun from both sides.”

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”

“The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still.”

“Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said ‘Let Newton be’ and all was light.”

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.”

“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.”

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“An honest man’s the noblest work of God.”

“A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

“Order is Heaven’s first law.”

“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”

“In every work regard the writer’s end, Since none can compass more than they intend.”

“He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head, or a very short creed.”

“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man.”

“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.”

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.”