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
faults blame fame
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
names church fame
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
night squares light
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
women character
Most women have no characters at all.
dying famous-last-words hundred
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
kissing criticism sober
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
intelligence sublime genius
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
wine heart age
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
teaching wells written
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
wine purple slumber
To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
teenage teenage-love crime
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
conceited paint conceit
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
writing way doe
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
wise father son
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.