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
blessed expects man ninth shall
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
man plain reason
Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
men he-man lost
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
men want he-man
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.
life past time-management
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
book principles manners
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
ears hell manners
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
mankind
Mankind is unamendable.
self easy manners
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
gratitude mankind unwilling
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
ashamed english-poet man saying today wiser words
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
ashamed man today wiser
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.