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
friendship philosopher guides
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
creativity destiny creative
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
art price-tag theory
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
men degrees vicious
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
memories brain chains
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
education money drinking
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
dance art moving
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
hope spring men
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
animal blood kitchen
Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
life memories love-life
How vast a memory has Love!
men stupidity criticism
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
god christian adversity
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
bent common education forms inclined tis twig
Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined
anger angry faults others ourselves revenge
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves