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
character people bird
It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
money people giving
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
people pouring noise
As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
ambition people emptiness
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
people religion together
There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
two people choices
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
people kind virtue
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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.
father people may
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
voice people odd
The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
education wisdom stupid-people
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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