All Alexander Pope Quotes
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
50% of people like this quote
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope
50% of people like this quote
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope
50% of people like this quote
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
50% of people like this quote
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
49% of people like this quote
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
49% of people like this quote
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
49% of people like this quote
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
49% of people like this quote
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
48% of people like this quote
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander Pope
48% of people like this quote
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Alexander Pope
48% of people like this quote
Related authors