Alexander Pope Quotes
Best 20 Quotes by Alexander Pope
“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.”
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.”
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”
An Essay On Criticism Quotes
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.”
“Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,
But are not critics to their judgment, too?”
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
Eloisa to Abelard Quotes
“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain”
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“False as the fowler's artful snare.”
“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep.”
The Rape of the Lock Quotes
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...”