Short Alexander Pope Quotes

On this page is a collection of short quotations by Alexander Pope. It is interesting to see how much meaning can be conveyed in so few words.

• Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

• At every word a reputation dies.

• Achilles absent was Achilles still.

• To err is human, to forgive divine.

• The lot of man — to suffer and to die.

• Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind.

• Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

• In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

• For love deceives the best of womankind.

• For too much rest itself becomes a pain.

• And for our country’t is a bliss to die.

• Praise undeserv’d is scandal in disguise.

• Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.

• And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

• And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar’d.