Alexander Pope Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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!
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my heart
To find that better way!
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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.
A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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.