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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Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.

Alexander Pope

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

Alexander Pope

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, wo...

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The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-` 'Nothing is sacred now but Villain...

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Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter ...

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me.

Alexander Pope

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

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All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.

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Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted Child of Dirt that st...

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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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

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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