Character Quotes by Alexander Pope

Most women have no characters at all.

— Alexander Pope

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

— Alexander Pope

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

— Alexander Pope

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

— Alexander Pope

“Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.”

— Alexander Pope

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

— Alexander Pope

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

— Alexander Pope

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

— Alexander Pope

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

— Alexander Pope

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

— Alexander Pope

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues…

— Alexander Pope

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can…

— Alexander Pope

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light…

— Alexander Pope

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that…

— Alexander Pope

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,…

— Alexander Pope

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may…

— Alexander Pope

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues,…

— Alexander Pope

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just,…

— Alexander Pope

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

— Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

— Alexander Pope

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— Alexander Pope

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

— Alexander Pope

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope