Alexander Pope Quotes

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fortune in men has some small diff’rence made,One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade,The cobbler apron’d, and the parson gown’d,The friar hooded, and the monarch crown’d.