Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image ““Averse alike to flatter, or offend; Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.”” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“after all, it is easy to cast as a flaw in others a trait you yourself possess.” — John Ripin Miller Copy Share Image
“Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do… — Susan Napier Copy Share Image
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of its favours to those that are called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or… — Thomas More Hoban Copy Share Image
“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that so satisfactorily unites individuals who have been so unfortunate as to quarrel amongst themselves as a strong mutual dislike for… — P.G.Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Unscripted, unedited, and wholly authentic people are almost universally admired, especially if they have flaws, are not afraid to make live, red-blooded mistakes, and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
