Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
angels english-poet fear fools rush
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.
catch flying last lips suck
See my lips tremble, and my eye-balls roll,/ Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!
excuse worse
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
fault hide mercy teach
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
hid laws lay nature newton
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
foreign grave hands humble strangers thy
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
chaos curtain darkness dies dread great lets thy universal
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
censure ten writers-and-writing writes
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
fool fools-and-foolishness knows learned nature
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more
college die endow
Die and endow a college or a cat.
age drunk fairly follies folly grace learn leave retirement sober trifle walk whom whose
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.