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
nice differences literature
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
law giving literature
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
nice stupid literature
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
humor literature form
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
faults literature absence
Never find fault with the absent.
fate religion literature
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
temptation literature satan
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
passion literature conquer
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
men occupy-yourself literature
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
perfect judging literature
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
literature praise satire
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
art nature literature
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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.