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
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
hid laws lay nature newton
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
wise fate law
Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
law giving literature
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
nature children law
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
law judging may
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
friendship true-friend law
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
life law made
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
saint lawns
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
law criticism demand
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
hurt lawyer scribes
Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
law order heaven
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
law may dine
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.