Top 500 Alexander Pope Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas’d at first, the towring Alps we try,...”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

362. “Thus God and nature linked the gen’ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

366. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

368. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

371. “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

372. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

378. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

384. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

386. “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

387. “Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”

— Alexander Pope

388. “And little eagles wave their wings in gold.”

— Alexander Pope

389. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

393. “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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

397. “Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.”

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope