Charles Churchill Quotes


"Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves."
- Charles Churchill
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Envy, Resentment, Whim)

"Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor."
- Charles Churchill
"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Beauty, Fame, Faults, Sense, Want)

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Acting, Crime, Danger, Lies)

"Patience is sorrow's salve."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Patience, Sorrow)

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Men, Thoughts, Rest)

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Credit, Lies, Rest, Will, World)

"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Nature, Sense)

"Genius is of no country."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Genius, Country)

"Genius is independent of situation."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Genius)

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Country, EnglFaults, Will)