Alexander Pope Virtue Quotations

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

Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.

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

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

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

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

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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