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
husband answers accepting
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
love passion men
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
love lost solitary
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
love art dust
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
dream errors seems
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream;
lying joy healthy
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
lasts each-day critics
And make each day a critic on the last.
reading eye stuff
For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
life kings ambition
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
friendship soul faithful
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
wise doubt mind
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
silence doubt silent
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
garden genius paint
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
pride littles trifles
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.