“True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every…” — Alexander Pope

“True politeness consists in the being easy one-self, and making every body about one as easy as we can.”

Defining courtesy through ease and consideration rather than ceremony · Conversation recorded by Joseph Spence, 1739

About Alexander Pope

21 May 1688–30 May 1744

Alexander Pope, born on 21 May 1688 and dead on 30 May 1744, was the supreme English poet of the Augustan age and one of the most technically accomplished writers in the language. His verse made the heroic couplet seem at once inevitable, conversational, polished, and inexhaustibly flexible. In his best work, a pair…

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