Quote

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexander Pope

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
Literary Historian
Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Lies
Honor
Lying
Part
Wells
Well
Deceit
Honour
Theatre

More quotes by Alexander Pope

Image
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
Alexander Pope
Image
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
Alexander Pope
Image
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
Alexander Pope
Image
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
Alexander Pope
Image
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Alexander Pope
Image
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope
Image
The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
Alexander Pope
Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
Alexander Pope
Image
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
Alexander Pope
Image
Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
Alexander Pope
Image
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope
Image
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Alexander Pope
Image
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
Alexander Pope
Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope
Image
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Alexander Pope
Image
I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Alexander Pope
Image
And make each day a critic on the last.
Alexander Pope
Image
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
Alexander Pope
Image
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Alexander Pope
Image
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
Alexander Pope