1,083 Quotes by Alexander Pope

Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away.

Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

So Man, who here seems principal alone,Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown.Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal,'This but a part we see, and not a whole.

So Man, who here seems principal alone,Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown.Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal,'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that many good friends can pretend to do.

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.