All Charles Churchill Quotes
- Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest. Appearance
- Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Attitude
- Genius is independent of situation. Genius
- No tribute is laid on castles in the air. Air
- Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. Couple
- Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame. Fame
- Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be… Brat
- He hurts me most who lavishly commends. Commends
- Genius is of no country. Country
- The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals… Doctors
- Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. Air
- When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have… Believe
- Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. Authors
- With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Art
- To copy faults is want of sense. Copies
- Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends. Commends
- To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense All
- Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day. Abroad
- Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm. Enthusiasm
- 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… Brain
- Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. All
- England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of… Boast
- The proud will sooner lose than ask their way. Ask
- It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. Funny
- The best things carried to excess are wrong. Best