Top 500 Alexander Pope Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

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2. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

— Alexander Pope

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3. “The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.”

— Alexander Pope

4. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

— Alexander Pope

5. “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”

— Alexander Pope

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6. “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.”

— Alexander Pope

7. “Every professional was once an amateur.”

— Alexander Pope

8. “Hope springs eternal.”

— Alexander Pope

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9. “Order is heaven’s first law.”

— Alexander Pope

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10. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”

— Alexander Pope

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11. “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”

— Alexander Pope

12. “Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.”

— Alexander Pope

13. “Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.”

— Alexander Pope

14. “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.”

— Alexander Pope

15. “A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.”

— Alexander Pope

16. “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”

— Alexander Pope

17. “Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?”

— Alexander Pope

18. “An honest man’s the noblest work of God.”

— Alexander Pope

19. “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.”

— Alexander Pope

20. “The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.”

— Alexander Pope

21. “No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.”

— Alexander Pope

22. “A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.”

— Alexander Pope

23. “All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.”

— Alexander Pope

24. “We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.”

— Alexander Pope

25. “Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”

— Alexander Pope

26. “You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.”

— Alexander Pope

27. “Whatever is, is right.”

— Alexander Pope

28. “Act well your part, there all the honour lies.”

— Alexander Pope

29. “Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

— Alexander Pope

30. “If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”

— Alexander Pope

31. “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”

— Alexander Pope

32. “He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.”

— Alexander Pope

33. “Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.”

— Alexander Pope

34. “Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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36. “Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.”

— Alexander Pope

37. “Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.”

— Alexander Pope

38. “Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

40. “Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”

— Alexander Pope

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41. “There is a majesty in simplicity.”

— Alexander Pope

42. “With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.”

— Alexander Pope

43. “O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.”

— Alexander Pope

44. “Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.”

— Alexander Pope

45. “Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.”

— Alexander Pope

46. “All other goods by Fortune’s hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.”

— Alexander Pope

47. “Be silent always when you doubt your sense.”

— Alexander Pope

48. “Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”

— Alexander Pope

49. “Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”

— Alexander Pope

50. “Never find fault with the absent.”

— Alexander Pope