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
world charity hope-and-faith
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
errors judging world
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
want poverty world
But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
men world good-nature
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
laughing world proud
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
giving world fool
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
lying world stones
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
romance world doe
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
noble credit world
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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.
english-poet fault hide mercy others teach
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.