Alexander Pope Character Quotations

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

Most women have no characters at all.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.