Alexander Pope Quotes about Judging

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

Alexander Pope

Judging, Gold, And Love

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.442

Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Alexander Pope

Self, Order, Judging

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.126

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

Alexander Pope

Perfect, Judging, Literature

Alexander Pope (1764). “An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton”, p.111

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope

Law, Judging, May

The Rape of the Lock canto 3, l. 21 (1714)

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

Alexander Pope

Spring, Judging, Deeds

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Alexander Pope

Moving, Perfect, Judging

Alexander Pope (1804). “A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author”, p.105