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
science growth sake
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
beauty eye joints
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
family commonwealth
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
hate faults hate-him
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
men world good-nature
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
merit peculiar care
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
marriage hands wife
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
fire religion veils
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
wise bears merit
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
mean simplicity ostentation
Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
sin offense offence
Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
next knaves converses
Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
women riddle please
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
laughing world proud
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.