Alexander Pope Quotes

Never find fault with the absent.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

What is fame? a fancied life in others’ breath.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

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

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.