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Alexander Pope Quotes

«Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Dancing | Keywords: easiest
«Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: faultless, piece
«All are but parts of one stupendous whole, whose body Nature is, and God the soul»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: stupendous
«The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: ambition, knave, patriot
«The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: The Vice
«Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Action, Kindness
«Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man»
«Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.»
«But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: Satan, tempts, wiser, yore
«There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.»

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