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
tree twigs bent
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
envy merit shade
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
food wine lovers
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
positive success attitude
The most positive men are the most credulous.
knowledge writing fruit
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
literature praise satire
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
men stupidity criticism
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
summer flower eye
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
hair draws tresses
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
firsts merit dignity
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
animal blood kitchen
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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.