Quotes from Alexander Pope

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

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

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

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.