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
men stupidity criticism
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
firsts merit dignity
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
eggs cooking vulgar
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
english-poet last lay nor rule whom
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
common education forms twig
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
english-poet faith life modes whose wrong
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
english-poet instead tempts wiser
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.