Quotes by Alexander Pope

About Alexander Pope:

Alexander Pope is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
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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

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

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

Alexander Pope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

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

Alexander Pope

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAlexander Pope
  • Descriptioneighteenth century English poet
  • BornMay 21, 1688
  • DiedMay 30, 1744
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Literary Historian; Translator; Writer