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.'

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Alexander Pope
Tell me, my soul, can this be death? / Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! / O grave, where is thy victory? / O, death where is thy sting? Alexander Pope
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, with feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain. Alexander Pope
Taste is a rare to be found as a true genius. That most men are born with some taste. Alexander Pope
The younger brother hath the more wit. Alexander Pope
Expression is the dress of thought, and still appears more decent as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, is like a clown in regal purple dressed. Alexander Pope
O happiness! Our being's end and aim! For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope
Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, / And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool Is happy, that he knows no more. Alexander Pope
You think this cruel? take it for a rule, / No creature smarts so little as a fool. Alexander Pope
A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope
One of the things that I have almost most wondered at is, that there should be any such thing as human vanity. If I had any, I had enough to mortify it a few days ago, for I lost my mind for a whole day. Alexander Pope
An honest man's the noblest work of God. Alexander Pope
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope
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. Alexander Pope
Coffee, (which makes the politician wise, / And see thro' all things with his half-shut eyes). Alexander Pope
All gardening is landscape painting. Alexander Pope
The ruling passion, be it what it will, the ruling passion conquers reason still. Alexander Pope
The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water. Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Alexander Pope
Tho' fortune change, his constant spouse remains, / Augments his joys, or mitigates his pains Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. Alexander Pope
Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own Alexander Pope
The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Alexander Pope
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. Alexander Pope
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! Alexander Pope
Charm strikes the sight but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. Alexander Pope