Alexander Pope Quotes and Sayings

Alexander Pope Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Alexander Pope quotes, Alexander Pope sayings, and Alexander Pope proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too. Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Alexander Pope

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. Alexander Pope

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. Alexander Pope

The whispering breeze pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Alexander Pope

Superstition is the spleen of the soul. Alexander Pope

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

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Alexander Pope

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn. Alexander Pope

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return. Alexander Pope

Monuments, like men, submit to fate. Alexander Pope

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. Alexander Pope

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. Alexander Pope

The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. Alexander Pope

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action. Alexander Pope

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope

And more than echoes talk along the walls. Alexander Pope

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. Alexander Pope

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? Alexander Pope

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. Alexander Pope

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. Alexander Pope

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. Alexander Pope

I never knew any man in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Alexander Pope

A small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; / The circle mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, / Another still, and still another spreads. Alexander Pope

Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. Alexander Pope

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, / Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Alexander Pope

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

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot. Alexander Pope