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
spring judging deeds
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
errors judging world
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
self order judging
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
law judging may
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
moving perfect judging
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
perfect judging literature
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
judging gold and-love
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
birthday count grateful
PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
man plain reason
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
men stupidity criticism
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
shining poetry brighter
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
mind mental-illness finest
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
character hypocrisy civility
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
long acting serious
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.