"Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will……" — Alexander Pope

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

— Alexander Pope

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532 Quotes by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope has 532 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the…
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once…
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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