Alexander Pope
English poet and satirist, 1688-1744
16 quotes.
Quotes by Alexander Pope
- A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
- At every trifle scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense.
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Good-nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest
- It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
- Order is heaven's first law.
- Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
- The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
- This education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
- To err is human, to forgive divine.