Top 500 Alexander Pope Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Thus God and nature linked the gen’ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

353. “Love the offender, yet detest the offense.”

— Alexander Pope

354. “A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

357. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

359. “Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”

— Alexander Pope

360. “All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.”

— Alexander Pope

361. “Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.”

— Alexander Pope

362. “What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav’n pursue.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

364. “Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.”

— Alexander Pope

365. “Is not absence death to those who love?”

— Alexander Pope

366. “Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .”

— Alexander Pope

367. “But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.”

— Alexander Pope

368. “Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice – A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.”

— Alexander Pope

369. “At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.”

— Alexander Pope

370. “When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.”

— Alexander Pope

371. “What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others’ faults, and feel our own.”

— Alexander Pope

372. “A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.”

— Alexander Pope

373. “The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.”

— Alexander Pope

374. “Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?”

— Alexander Pope

375. “Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.”

— Alexander Pope

376. “What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspired to be the head? What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?”

— Alexander Pope

377. “These riches are possess’d, but not enjoy’d!”

— Alexander Pope

378. “For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.”

— Alexander Pope

379. “But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe’er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.”

— Alexander Pope

380. “Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o’erthrows.”

— Alexander Pope

381. “Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.”

— Alexander Pope

382. “See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form’d and impell’d its neighbor to embrace.”

— Alexander Pope

383. “As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.”

— Alexander Pope

384. “Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.”

— Alexander Pope

385. “Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.”

— Alexander Pope

386. “Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.”

— Alexander Pope

387. “The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.”

— Alexander Pope

388. “True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.”

— Alexander Pope

389. “Fix’d like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.”

— Alexander Pope

390. “The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”

— Alexander Pope

391. “No craving void left aching in the soul.”

— Alexander Pope

392. “Wit is the lowest form of humor.”

— Alexander Pope

393. “The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.”

— Alexander Pope

394. “Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.”

— Alexander Pope

395. “We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.”

— Alexander Pope

396. “But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”

— Alexander Pope

397. “Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.”

— Alexander Pope

398. “Truth needs not flowers of speech.”

— Alexander Pope

399. “What will a child learn sooner than a song?”

— Alexander Pope

400. “When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.”

— Alexander Pope