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
giving tree liberty
Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
self giving advice
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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.
money people giving
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
clothes fire giving
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
giving charity littles
I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
law giving literature
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
light sight giving
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
sleep giving painful
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
giving alive charity
When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
men giving society
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
heart sunshine giving
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
color light giving
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
ajax light giving
The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.