Alexander Pope Quotes: 16

• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

• To err is human, to forgive, divine.

  An Essay on Criticism

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

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

• A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

• A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.

  An Essay on Criticism

• Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Moral Essays

• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  The Rape of the Lock

• Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

  An Essay on Man

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

• If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way!

  Moral Essays

• Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

• Order is heaven's first law.

  An Essay on Man