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
few vicious virtue virtuous
Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
skills want virtue
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
knowledge bliss virtue
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
friendship virtue
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
pain virtue endeavour
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
virtue
Virtue alone is happiness below.
people kind virtue
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
vices sometimes virtue
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
want vices virtue
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
vices dignity virtue
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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
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.