What did Alexander Pope mean by: And not a vanity is given in vain. - Alexander Pope Poet · England Copy
+ Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Light, Sea, Sky, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Friendship, Real Friends, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Alexander Pope, Character, Lying, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Truth needs not flowers of speech. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 24, 2023, Alexander Pope, Flower, Truth, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander Pope, Grapes, Hair, Stones, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth’s itself a lie. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Cunning, Dull, Lying, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 17, 2024, Alexander Pope, Bottles, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
+ Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024February 18, 2024, Alexander Pope, Evil, Pleasure, Understood, 0 - Alexander Pope Poet · England
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity. - Jeremy Paxman Journalist · United Kingdom
All is vanity and everybody’s vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men – more so, if possible. - Jerome K. Jerome Writer
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
