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
smart littles fool
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
men noses littles
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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.
thanksgiving littles patient
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
dog curiosity littles
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
pride littles trifles
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
science doubt littles
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
beauty men littles
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.
future knowing littles
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
wise wisdom littles
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
truth people littles
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
littles study application
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
too-much faults littles
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
littles gale driving
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.