Alexander Pope Judging Quotations

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

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.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

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.

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.

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

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