Quotes By Alexander Pope

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

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

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.