Alexander Pope Quotes

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Alexander Pope

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 21, 1688

Health consists with temperance alone.

Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Alexander Pope

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alexander Pope

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Alexander Pope

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope