Quotes by Alexander Pope

“Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.”

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

“The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”

“Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.”

“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”

“The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”

“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

“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 further...”

“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”

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

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

“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.”

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

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”

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

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

“The most positive men are the most credulous.”

“The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.”