Fop Quotes

#1. The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

William Cowper

#2. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Samuel Johnson

#3. A fop sometimes gives important advice.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#4. Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

Peter Piot

#5. What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

George Etherege

#7. Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Malcolm X

#8. I'd love to play some kind of fop.

Robert Carlyle

#9. The muscle in Matthew's jaw contracted. First pirates, then this fop. Kathryn did not seem to be a woman of discriminating taste when it came to men.

Sandra Marton

#10. To-day she had watched magic dancing in a mackintosh, and she was at a loss.

Stella Benson

#11. Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

Alexander Pope

#12. See how the World its Veterans rewards!
A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;
A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;
Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Alexander Pope

#13. A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. He who suffers, triumphs.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

Brian Selznick

#16. A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#17. Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Mercy Otis Warren

#18. The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Lord Chesterfield

#19. I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.

David Platt

#20. I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

Charles Bukowski

#21. Ruislip, the Fop's opponent, resembled a bad dream one might have if one fell asleep watching sumo wrestling on the television with a Bob Marley record playing in the background. He was a huge Rastafarian who looked like nothing so much as an obese and enormous baby.

Neil Gaiman

#22. A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Samuel Richardson

#23. Aubrey Davenport was dressed like a fop, had the manners of a fop, and appeared to have the intelligence of a potato.

Marion Chesney