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:
“Those rules of old discovered, not devised,
Are Nature sill, but Nature methodized;
Nature, like liberty, is but restrained
By the same laws which first herself ordained.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul;”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“She sigh’d not that They stay’d, but that She went.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)