Quotes from Alexander Pope

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

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.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.

Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private.

Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new, And all who hear'd it made enlargements too, In ev'ry ear it spread, on ev'ry tongue it grew.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.