Alexander Pope

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:

    Fear most to tax an honorable fool,
    Whose right it is, uncensured to be dull;
    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)

    Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    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)

    P—xed by her love, or libeled by her hate.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)