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
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.
men want he-man
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
wit zeal
I have more zeal than wit.
skills want virtue
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
zephyr breathe shrouds
Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
blow zephyr strain
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
cheerful rays morrow
Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
lord swine hog
The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
advice niggard worst
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
agriculture soil toil
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.