Alexander Pope Quotes, Love Quotes, Passion Quotes

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

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No craving void left aching in the soul.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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True self-love and social are the same.

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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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Most women have no characters at all.

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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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