Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, as well as for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in the English language, per The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having even become popular idioms in common parlance (e.g., Damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet. Pope’s poetic career testifies to his indomitable spirit in the face of disadvantages, of health and of circumstance. The poet and his family were Catholics and thus fell subject to the Test Acts, prohibitive measures which severely hampered the prosperity of their co-religionists after the abdication of James II; one of these banned them from living within ten miles of London, and another from attending public school or university. For this reason, except for a few spurious Catholic schools, Pope was largely self-educated. He was taught to read by his aunt and became a lover of books. He learned French, Italian, Latin, and Greek by himself, and discovered Homer at the age of six. As a child Pope survived being once trampled by a cow, but when he was 12 began struggling with tuberculosis of the spine (Pott disease), along with fits of crippling headaches which troubled him throughout his life. We bring you the compilation of the best Alexander Pope Quotes, hope you like it.
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Never elated while one man’s oppress’d; Never dejected while another’s bless’d. -Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive divine. -Alexander Pope
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. -Alexander Pope
True wit is nature to advantage dress’d What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed. -Alexander Pope
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship. -Alexander Pope
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. -Alexander Pope
The boxful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. -Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. -Alexander Pope
The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more. -Alexander Pope
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. -Alexander Pope
The bless’d abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. -Alexander Pope
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. -Alexander Pope
Thus education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined. -Alexander Pope
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. -Alexander Pope
Men would be angels; angels would be gods. -Alexander Pope
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. -Alexander Pope
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. -Alexander Pope
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. -Alexander Pope
All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. -Alexander Pope
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunella. -Alexander Pope
Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot? -Alexander Pope
And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. -Alexander Pope
For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. -Alexander Pope
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
If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way! -Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. -Alexander Pope
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul. -Alexander Pope
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All gardening is landscape painting. -Alexander Pope
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. – Alexander Pope
An honest man’s the noblest work of God. -Alexander Pope
What so tedious as a twice-told tale? -Alexander Pope
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. -Alexander Pope
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance. -Alexander Pope
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private. -Alexander Pope
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. -Alexander
When two people complement each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. -Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Preen spring; Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. -Alexander Pope
All other goods by fortune’s hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven. -Alexander Pope
One truth is clear, Whatever is is right. -Alexander Pope
Till tired, he sleeps, and life’s poor play is o’er. -Alexander Pope
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state. -Alexander Pope
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. -Alexander Pope
The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. -Alexander Pope
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. -Alexander Pope
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. -Alexander Pope
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. -Alexander Pope
True wit is Nature to advantage dress’d What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d. -Alexander Pope
Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. -Alexander Pope
Then marble, soften’d into life, grew warm. -Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man. -Alexander Pope
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. -Alexander Pope
How shall I love the sin, yet keep the sense, And love the offender, yet detest the offence? -Alexander Pope
He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. -Alexander Pope
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not. -Alexander Pope
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. -Alexander Pope
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -Alexander Pope
Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. – Alexander Pope
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. -Alexander Pope
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. -Alexander Pope
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she’ll hate you while you live. -Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. -Alexander Pope
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He that would pun would pick a pocket. -Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. -Alexander Pope
For fools admire, but men of sense approve. -Alexander
‘Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. -Alexander Pope
Order is Heaven’s first law. -Alexander Pope
Men would be angels; Angels would be gods. -Alexander Pope
To err is human, to forgive divine. -Alexander Pope
Woman’s at best a contradiction still. -Alexander Pope
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. -Alexander Pope
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