Logo
Quote by Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attemp

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope

Other quotes by Alexander Pope

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Chaos
Author
Alexander Pope
Read Quote

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Hope
Author
Alexander Pope
Read Quote

Behold the child, by Natures kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Nature
Author
Alexander Pope
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
category

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. – E. M. Forster

Category:
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

Category:
Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Random Quotes

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. – Ludwig Quidde

Category:
Success

Adversity enhances this tale we call life. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Adversity

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I dont feel desperate. Its not about creating or building a career. – Lisa Bonet

Category:
Beauty

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. – Asa Gray

Category:
Knowledge