Alexander Pope Quotes ( Author of An Essay On Man)

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.

15 most famous Alexander Pope Quotes: 

Alexander Pope Quotes

1. All Nature is but art, unknown to thee

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;

All discord, harmony not understood; 

All partial evil, universal good.

― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

2. Woman's at best a contradiction still.

― Alexander Pope

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

― Alexander Pope

4. One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

― Alexander Pope

5. If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.

― Alexander Pope

6. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

― Alexander Pope

7. 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.

― Alexander Pope

8. Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

― Alexander Pope

9. Brevity is the soul of wit.

― Alexander Pope, Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

10. Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

― Alexander Pope

11. An honest man is the noblest work of God.

― Alexander Pope

12. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.

― Alexander Pope

13. And die of nothing but a rage to live.

― Alexander Pope

14. They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

― Alexander Pope

15. Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

― Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism

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