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
book principles manners
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
pain virtue endeavour
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
life science long
This long disease, my life.
god wind clouds
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
years funeral age
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
summer goodbye spring
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
angel ambition firsts
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
running tilt weapons
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
saint paint folly
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
morning night thinking
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
sarcastic heart brain
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ears hell manners
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
courage men thinking
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
country military causes
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?