| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44927 |
| QUOTATION: | True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744), British poet. Essay on Criticism (Fr. II). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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