Quotes By Alexander Pope

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Order is heaven's first law.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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

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!

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

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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.

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

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.