--- title: "9 Vices Quotes By Alexander Pope" description: "9 Vices quotes by Alexander Pope. Plus more from Alexander Pope and more Vices sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/alexander-pope-235_constant_tis-all-in-vain-to-keep-a-constant-pothe_372261.png" --- > [Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/tis-all-in-vain-to-keep-a-constant-pother-about-one-vice-and-fall/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/alexander-pope-235_constant_tis-all-in-vain-to-keep-a-constant-pothe_372261.png) > [Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/sometimes-virtue-starves-while-vice-is-fed/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/alexander-pope-235_feds_sometimes-virtue-starves-while-vice-is-f_467973.png) > [Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/virtue-i-grant-you-is-an-empty-boast-but-shall-the-dignity-of-vice-be/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/alexander-pope-235_boast_virtue-i-grant-you-is-an-empty-boast-but_3029217.png) > [Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/vice-is-a-monster-of-so-frightful-mien-as-to-be-hated-needs-but-to-be/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/alexander-pope-235_embrace_vice-is-a-monster-of-so-frightful-mien-a_411886.png) > [The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/the-heart-resolves-this-matter-in-a-trice-men-only-feel-the-smart-but/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a30/alexander-pope-235_feels_the-heart-resolves-this-matter-in-a-tric_2133118.png) > [Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/vices-and-virtues-are-of-a-strange-nature-for-the-more-we-have-the/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/alexander-pope-235_character_vices-and-virtues-are-of-a-strange-natur_1802164.png) > [Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/of-all-the-causes-which-conspire-to-blind-man-s-erring-judgement-and/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/alexander-pope-235_bias_of-all-the-causes-which-conspire-to-blin_1043949.png) > [Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/count-all-th-advantage-prosperous-vice-attains-tis-but-what-virtue/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/alexander-pope-235_advantage_count-all-th-advantage-prosperous-vice-a_2574187.png) > [I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/i-would-not-be-like-those-authors-who-forgive-themselves-some/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f24/alexander-pope-235_believe_i-would-not-be-like-those-authors-who-fo_1141153.png) ## Other authors on Vices - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-146.jpg) Francois de La Rochefoucauld 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-caleb-colton-22176.jpg) Charles Caleb Colton 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/charles-caleb-colton/) - [Aristotle 20 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/aristotle/) - [Samuel Johnson 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/samuel-johnson/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michel-de-montaigne-67580.jpg) Michel de Montaigne 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/michel-de-montaigne/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-hazlitt-95511.jpg) William Hazlitt 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/william-hazlitt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-seneca-the-younger-83995.jpg) Seneca the Younger 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/seneca-the-younger/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-horace-42297.jpg) Horace 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/horace/) - [Benjamin Franklin 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/benjamin-franklin/) - [Honore de Balzac 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/honor-de-balzac/) ## More by Alexander Pope > [How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/how-do-we-know-that-we-have-a-right-to-kill-creatures-that-we-are-so/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/to-wake-the-soul-by-tender-strokes-of-art-to-raise-the-genius-and-to/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [A mighty maze! But not without a plan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/a-mighty-maze-but-not-without-a-plan/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/let-such-teach-others-who-themselves-excel-and-censure-freely-who/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/for-i-who-hold-sage-homer-s-rule-the-best-welcome-the-coming-speed/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/like-following-life-through-creatures-you-dissect-you-lose-it-in-the/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/when-two-people-compliment-each-other-with-the-choice-of-anything/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/such-labour-d-nothings-in-so-strange-a-style-amaze-th-unlearn-d-and/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/charms-strike-the-sight-but-merit-wins-the-soul/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/she-went-from-opera-park-assembly-play-to-morning-walks-and-prayers/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/i-am-satisfied-to-trifle-away-my-time-rather-than-let-it-stick-by-me/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/the-greatest-advantage-i-know-of-being-thought-a-wit-by-the-world-is/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Then say not Man's imperfect,Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect ashe ought:](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/then-say-not-man-s-imperfect-heav-n-in-fault-say-rather-man-s-as/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/first-follow-nature-and-your-judgment-frame-by-her-just-standard/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) > [Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-pope/who-shall-decide-when-doctors-disagree-and-soundest-casuists-doubt/) [Alexander Pope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-pope/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vices/alexander-pope/#itemlist", "name": "9 Vices Quotes By Alexander Pope", 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