29 Quotes By Alexander Pope - One Of The Greatest English Poets
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.
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Quotes By Alexander Pope
1. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
– Alexander Pope
2. Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
— Alexander Pope
3. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
– Alexander Pope
4. An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
– Alexander Pope
5. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
– Alexander Pope
6. What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
– Alexander Pope
7. Where beams of imagination play,
The memory’s soft figures melt away.
– Alexander Pope
8. Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
– Alexander Pope
9. To err is human, to forgive, divine.
– Alexander Pope
10. Pleased to look forward, pleased to look behind, and count each birthday with a grateful mind.
– Alexander Pope
11. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie;for an excuse is a lie guarded.
– Alexander Pope
12. Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev’n then, shall my cold dust remain.
— Alexander Pope
13. Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
– Alexander Pope
14. The world forgetting by the world forgot.
— Alexander Pope
15. If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.
— Alexander Pope
16. Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
– Alexander Pope
17. Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.
– Alexander Pope
18. Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely.
— Alexander Pope
19. The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man’s error and misery.
— Alexander Pope
20. Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
– Alexander Pope
21. The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
– Alexander Pope
22. Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!
— Alexander Pope
23. Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake.
— Alexander Pope
24. No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
– Alexander Pope
25. An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
— Alexander Pope
26. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
– Alexander Pope
27. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
– Alexander Pope
28. Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
— Alexander Pope
29. Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”
— Alexander Pope
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