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 stupid literature
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
stupid fool knows
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
wise lying stupid
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
education wisdom stupid-people
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
men stupidity criticism
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
curse law-and-lawyers love
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.
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
college die endow
Die and endow a college or a cat.
excuse worse
An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.
dear gold grow rust
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.
fault hide mercy teach
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.