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
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
cool crowd fan flourish shall turn
Where'er you walk, cool glades shall fan the glade / Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: / Where'er you tread, the blusing flow'rs shall rise, / And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
ashamed english-poet man saying today wiser words
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
ashamed man today wiser
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
dangerous drink drinking knowledge largely learning shallow taste
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
excuse worse
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.