Alexander Pope was born in London on 21 May 1688 during the year of the Glorious Revolution to a successful linen merchant in the Strand and Edith (1643–1733), who was the daughter of William Turner, Esquire, of York.
He has bloodlines from Twickenham, Middlesex, England, is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the leading poet of the early eighteenth century. Alexander Pope Quotes are so in among the people since a long time as he is emerged the second-most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, as per The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
However, a number of his verses having yet turned out to be well-liked idioms in regular manner of speaking. Pope is deemed to be a master of the heroic couplet, while he has been acclaimed for his satirical and discursive poetry together with The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and An Essay on Criticism over and above for his translation of Homer.
Alexander Pope Quotes about eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, puzzle page, spotless mind, art, life, and several other topics are famous all around the world. Here we have his best sayings’ collection can take immense motivation and inspiration for all of you who are looking for best of the best quotations to brighten soul.
During his childhood, Pope had to bear numerous health issues but he had not stopped his hand to write. His first work Pastorals was published in 1709 that made him a household name in literary circles shortly after. He had been written An Essay on Criticism just two years later that brough more acclaim from the readers.
Alexander Pope died on 30 May 1744 at age of 56, in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, in his villa surrounded by friends, nearly eleven o’clock at night.
“The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.” _Alexander Pope
“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.” _Alexander Pope
“Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.” _Alexander Pope
“Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.” Alexander Pope
“A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.” _Alexander Pope
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.” _Alexander Pope
“Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.” _Alexander Pope
“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.” _Alexander Pope
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.” _Alexander Pope
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” _Alexander Pope
“The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.” _Alexander Pope
“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.” _Alexander Pope
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” _Alexander Pope
“On wrongs swift vengeance waits.” _Alexander Pope
“And die of nothing but a rage to live.” _Alexander Pope
“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
“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” _Alexander Pope
“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.” _Alexander Pope
“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.” _Alexander Pope
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.” _Alexander Pope
“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” _Alexander Pope
“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.” _Alexander Pope
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” _Alexander Pope
“Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.” _Alexander Pope
“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.” _Alexander Pope
“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.” _Alexander Pope
“Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.” _Alexander Pope
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” _Alexander Pope
“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” _Alexander Pope
“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”_Alexander Pope
“On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.” _Alexander Pope
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” _Alexander Pope
“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.” _Alexander Pope
“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.” _Alexander Pope
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” _Alexander Pope
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.” _Alexander Pope
“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.” _Alexander Pope
“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.” _Alexander Pope
“Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.” _Alexander Pope
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.” _Alexander Pope
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.” _Alexander Pope
“Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.” _Alexander Pope
“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.” _Alexander Pope
“Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.” _Alexander Pope
“Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.” _Alexander Pope
“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.” _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
“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.” _Alexander Pope
“Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!” _Alexander Pope
“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.” Alexander Pope
“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.” _Alexander Pope
“Passions are the gales of life.” _Alexander Pope
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.” _Alexander Pope
“Never find fault with the absent.” _Alexander Pope
“True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.” _Alexander Pope
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” _Alexander Pope
“Passions are the gales of life.” _Alexander Pope
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.” _Alexander Pope
“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!” _Alexander Pope
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.” _Alexander Pope
“Health consists with temperance alone.” _Alexander Pope
“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.” _Alexander Pope
‘”Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.” _Alexander Pope
“And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade.” _Alexander Pope
“To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th’ observer’s sake.” _Alexander Pope
“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.” _Alexander Pope
“The most positive men are the most credulous.” _Alexander Pope
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.” _Alexander Pope
“Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.” _Alexander Pope
“Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.” _Alexander Pope
“Wit is the lowest form of humor.” _Alexander Pope
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.” _Alexander Pope
“Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.” _Alexander Pope
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.” _Alexander Pope
“Woman’s at best a contradiction still.” _Alexander Pope
“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.” _Alexander Pope
“The proper study of Mankind is Man.” _Alexander Pope
“The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.” _Alexander Pope
“Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!” _Alexander Pope
“For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.” _Alexander Pope
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.” _Alexander Pope
“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.” _Alexander Pope
“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” _Alexander Pope
“How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?” _Alexander Pope
“All nature is but art unknown to thee.” _Alexander Pope
“At every word a reputation dies.” _Alexander Pope
“A cherub’s face, a reptile all the rest.” _Alexander Pope
“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.” _Alexander Pope
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.” _Alexander Pope
“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?” _Alexander Pope
“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.” _Alexander Pope
“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.” _Alexander Pope
“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.” _Alexander Pope
“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?” _Alexander Pope
“Order is heaven’s first law.” _Alexander Pope
“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. ” _Alexander Pope
“Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.” _Alexander Pope
“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” _Alexander Pope
“Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.” _Alexander Pope
“Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.” _Alexander Pope
“Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.” _Alexander Pope
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.” _Alexander Pope
“Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?” _Alexander Pope
“Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.” _Alexander Pope
“If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.” _Alexander Pope
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” _Alexander Pope
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” _Alexander Pope
“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.” _Alexander Pope
“A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.” _Alexander Pope
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.” _Alexander Pope
“The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.” _Alexander Pope
“The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.” _Alexander Pope
“Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.” _Alexander Pope
“Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” _Alexander Pope
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” _Alexander Pope
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.” _Alexander Pope
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.” _Alexander Pope