Alexander Pope Quotes

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Curse on all laws but those which love has made.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.