48 quotes by Alexander Pope

“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” — Alexander Pope

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“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.” — Alexander Pope

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“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.” — Alexander Pope

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“The most positive men are the most credulous.” — Alexander Pope

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“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.” — Alexander Pope

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.” — Alexander Pope

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

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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” — Alexander Pope

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“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.” — Alexander Pope

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“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.” — Alexander Pope

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“Woman's at best a contradiction still.” — Alexander Pope

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“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.” — Alexander Pope

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“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.” — Alexander Pope

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“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.” — Alexander Pope

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“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.” — Alexander Pope

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“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.” — Alexander Pope

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“Health consists with temperance alone.” — Alexander Pope

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“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.” — Alexander Pope

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“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.” — Alexander Pope

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“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.” — Alexander Pope

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“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.” — Alexander Pope

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“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” — Alexander Pope

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