Aprons Quote by Alexander Pope

“Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.”

Alexander Pope

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Aprons Cobblers Crowns Fortune Friars Gowns Made Men Monarchs Rags

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…

Alexander Pope

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

Image

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

Image

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Alexander Pope

Image

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Alexander Pope

Image

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Alexander Pope

Image

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Alexander Pope

Image

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Alexander Pope

Image

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

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

Image

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

Alexander Pope

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

Image

Explore all 850 Alexander Pope quotes

More Aprons quotes

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Barbara Kingsolver

Image

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all…

Carrie Fisher

Image

I had a bag of Fritos, they were Texas grilled Fritos. These Fritos had grill marks on them. They remind me of summer, when…

Mitch Hedberg

Image

The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the…

Malcolm Gladwell