To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
ALEXANDER POPEThe world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d
More Alexander Pope Quotes
-
-
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Expression is the dress of thought.
ALEXANDER POPE -
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE -
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
ALEXANDER POPE -
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
ALEXANDER POPE -
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE -
There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
ALEXANDER POPE -
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE -
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
ALEXANDER POPE -
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE -
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE -
The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPE -
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
ALEXANDER POPE