Top 500 Alexander Pope Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.”

— Alexander Pope

302. “And not a vanity is given in vain.”

— Alexander Pope

303. “She who ne’er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.”

— Alexander Pope

304. “The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”

— Alexander Pope

305. “Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”

— Alexander Pope

306. “A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.”

— Alexander Pope

307. “No creature smarts so little as a fool.”

— Alexander Pope

308. “When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.”

— Alexander Pope

309. “On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.”

— Alexander Pope

310. “And soften’d sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.”

— Alexander Pope

311. “Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.”

— Alexander Pope

312. “Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.”

— Alexander Pope

313. “There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.”

— Alexander Pope

314. “A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.”

— Alexander Pope

315. “Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”

— Alexander Pope

316. “Then marble, soften’d into life, grew warm.”

— Alexander Pope

317. “What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.”

— Alexander Pope

318. “The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.”

— Alexander Pope

319. “Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect’s gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?”

— Alexander Pope

320. “If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.”

— Alexander Pope

321. “And write about it, Goddess, and about it!”

— Alexander Pope

322. “Whate’er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.”

— Alexander Pope

323. “Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?”

— Alexander Pope

324. “Cavil you may, but never criticise.”

— Alexander Pope

325. “Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man’s weakness grows the strength of all.”

— Alexander Pope

326. “Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil’d on mountains to the skies? Heav’n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”

— Alexander Pope

327. “Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.”

— Alexander Pope

328. “Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.”

— Alexander Pope

329. “Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.”

— Alexander Pope

330. “Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I’ll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

332. “Authors are partial to their wit, ’tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?”

— Alexander Pope

333. “New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas’d at first, the towring Alps we try,...”

— Alexander Pope

334. “A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!”

— Alexander Pope

335. “Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.”

— Alexander Pope

336. “Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?”

— Alexander Pope

337. “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

338. “The proper study of Mankind is Man.”

— Alexander Pope

339. “Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.”

— Alexander Pope

340. “Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?”

— Alexander Pope

341. “Age and want sit smiling at the gate.”

— Alexander Pope

342. “What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?”

— Alexander Pope

343. “Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.”

— Alexander Pope

344. “Unblemish’d let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!”

— Alexander Pope

345. “What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.”

— Alexander Pope

346. “Never elated while one man’s oppress’d; Never dejected while another’s blessed.”

— Alexander Pope

347. “Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!”

— Alexander Pope

348. “By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne’er obliged.”

— Alexander Pope

349. “One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.”

— Alexander Pope

350. “The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.”

— Alexander Pope