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!
honesty character men
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
honesty truth care
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
volunteer honest instinct
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
inspirational honesty long
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
marriage witty honest
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
wise honesty women
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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
college die endow
Die and endow a college or a cat.
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.