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
honest fame let-me
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
lying fame deathbed
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
fancy fame breaths
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
life wealth fame
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
favors dignity fame
Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call
favors fame ifs
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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.
fame breaths
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
passion contentment fame
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
blessed expects man ninth shall
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
fault hide mercy teach
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.