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
faith prayer believe
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
sex tables flesh
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
winning sight soul
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
powerful learning science
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
dog time calendars
Dogs, ye have had your day!
acting pits monsters
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
fall twilight autumn
The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
vanity vain given
And not a vanity is given in vain.
men heaven weakness
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
clothes fire giving
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
fate humans left
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
winter blow decay
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
sad women hate
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
hair devil amber
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.