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
angels english-poet fear fools rush
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
smart littles fool
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
lasts next fool
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
giving world fool
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
home charity fool
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
stupid fool knows
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
government fool form
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
angel fool altars
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
suffering fool pardon
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
fool zeal
The zeal of fools offends at any time.
age fool patriot
A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
nature school fool
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
passion fool sincere
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
fool fools-and-foolishness knows learned nature
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more