Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.
Famous quotes by alexander pope:
“She sigh’d not that They stay’d, but that She went.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“Up to her godly garret after sev’n,
There starve and pray, for that’s the way to heav’n.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“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.’”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“But when to mischiefmortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill!”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)