Top 500 Alexander Pope Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.”

— Alexander Pope

452. “There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.”

— Alexander Pope

453. “Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.”

— Alexander Pope

454. “The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.”

— Alexander Pope

455. “He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.”

— Alexander Pope

456. “Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.”

— Alexander Pope

457. “A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.”

— Alexander Pope

458. “Soft o’er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.”

— Alexander Pope

459. “Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

461. “Still follow sense, of ev’ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.”

— Alexander Pope

462. “Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.”

— Alexander Pope

463. “Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.”

— Alexander Pope

464. “Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.”

— Alexander Pope

465. “Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.”

— Alexander Pope

466. “Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure ’gainst age but it.”

— Alexander Pope

467. “But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o’er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.”

— Alexander Pope

468. “If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?”

— Alexander Pope

469. “Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.”

— Alexander Pope

470. “What bosom beast not in his country’s cause?”

— Alexander Pope

471. “How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!”

— Alexander Pope

472. “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

473. “Who dare to love their country, and be poor.”

— Alexander Pope

474. “The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.”

— Alexander Pope

475. “And more than echoes talk along the walls.”

— Alexander Pope

476. “Health consists with temperance alone.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

478. “Genius involves both envy and calumny.”

— Alexander Pope

479. “Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation’s aid, But bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d.”

— Alexander Pope

480. “In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.”

— Alexander Pope

481. “I have more zeal than wit.”

— Alexander Pope

482. “No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.”

— Alexander Pope

483. “And empty heads console with empty sound.”

— Alexander Pope

484. “The zeal of fools offends at any time.”

— Alexander Pope

485. “Live like yourself, was soon my lady’s word, And lo! two puddings smok’d upon the board.”

— Alexander Pope

486. “O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue’s sake.”

— Alexander Pope

487. “I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.”

— Alexander Pope

488. “The good must merit God’s peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?”

— Alexander Pope

489. “To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.”

— Alexander Pope

490. “O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.”

— Alexander Pope

491. “While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.”

— Alexander Pope

492. “Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she’ll hate you while you live.”

— Alexander Pope

493. “Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev’ry thought, inspirit ev’ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.”

— Alexander Pope

494. “Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav’n influence scarce can penetrate. In life’s low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.”

— Alexander Pope

495. “A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.”

— Alexander Pope

496. “Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.”

— Alexander Pope

497. “It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.”

— Alexander Pope

498. “Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.”

— Alexander Pope

499. “Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.”

— Alexander Pope

500. “I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.”

— Alexander Pope