Alexander Pope Quotes, Strong Quotes, Men Quotes

I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

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