Alexander Pope Literature Quotations

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Never find fault with the absent.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.