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
leadership ambition sea
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
atheism looks privacy
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
beauty eye winning
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
nice differences literature
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
inspirational lying character
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
party political politics
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
art philosophy science
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
lying men given
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
mind-blowing huge
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
law giving literature
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
god men psychology
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
happiness laughter truth
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
happiness sunshine obscurity
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
gentle jokes dullness
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.