79 Quotes By Alexander Pope


Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope on alone

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

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope on art

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

All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander Pope on art

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

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

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 on best

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander Pope on best

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 on best

Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Alexander Pope on best

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

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 on business

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

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 on change

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Alexander Pope on diet

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope on education

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope on education

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

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