Quotes

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Alexander Pope


If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Alexander Pope


A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Alexander Pope


One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope


Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope


'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope


Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope


I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope


The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope


A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

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