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
truth
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
happiness laughter truth
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
honesty truth care
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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.
truth flower speech
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
harmony nature partial spite thou truth universal unknown whatever
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right
birthday count grateful
PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
cool crowd fan flourish shall turn
Where'er you walk, cool glades shall fan the glade / Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: / Where'er you tread, the blusing flow'rs shall rise, / And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
few vicious virtue virtuous
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
english-poet instead tempts wiser
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
english-poet faith life modes whose wrong
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
common education forms twig
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
art chance ease easiest move true
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.