Alexander Pope Quotes
Alexander Pope is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.
(1688 - 1744)
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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
[Education]
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
[Forgiveness]
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
[Government]
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
[Learning]
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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
[Philosophy]
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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.
[Confession]
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
[Literature]
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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.
[Curiosity]
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A wise physician, skilled our ills to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
[Art]
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
[Creation]
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All gardening is landscape painting.
[Nature]
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
[Prejudice]
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All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction which thou canst net see; all discord, harmony not understood; all partial evil, universal good.
[Providence]
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.
[Wife]
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All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
[Positive]
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