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
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
english-poet last lay nor rule whom
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
few vicious virtue virtuous
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
argument delight true
True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
chaos curtain darkness dies dread great lets thy universal
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.
age drunk fairly follies folly grace learn leave retirement sober trifle walk whom whose
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
dream english-poet men
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
man plain reason
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
hid laws lay nature newton
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
believes judgment-and-judges judgments
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
angels english-poet fear fools rush
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
positive success attitude
The most positive men are the most credulous.
wise wisdom whole
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
death pain rage
And die of nothing but a rage to live.