Virtue Quotes by Alexander Pope

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

— Alexander Pope

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

— Alexander Pope

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

— Alexander Pope

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

— Alexander Pope

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

— Alexander Pope

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

— Alexander Pope

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast;…

— 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

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

— Alexander Pope

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar…

— 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

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they…

— Alexander Pope

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in…

— Alexander Pope

“How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains, Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains: That Men may say, when we…

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— 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

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

— Alexander Pope

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

— Alexander Pope