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
Alexander Pope quotes about
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.
harmony nature partial spite thou truth universal unknown whatever
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right
believes judgment-and-judges judgments
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
english-poet fault hide mercy others teach
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.
ashamed man today wiser
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
ashamed english-poet man saying today wiser words
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
sound speech empty
And empty heads console with empty sound.
tyrants lust succeed
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
time sticks trifles
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
reign fickle crowns
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
expression poetry dresses
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
vices sometimes virtue
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
numbers lisp
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.