Alexander Pope: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”

“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

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

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

“Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.”

“An honest man's the noblest work of God”

“This long disease, my life.”

“Whatever is, is right.”

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded”

“What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!”

“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”

“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

“There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell:
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you;
'T was a fat oyster,—live in peace,—adieu.”

“Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.”

“Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.”

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”

“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”

“And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.”