Best Charles Churchill Quotes
- The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. Acting
- Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let… Accents
- A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to… All
- Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. Ask
- With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. Envy
- Those who raise envy will easily incur censure. Censure
- Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Excuse
- Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. Awakens
- The more haste, ever the worst speed. Haste
- Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. Amongst
- Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Fool
- Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. Active
- The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. Command
- Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. All
- The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. Better
- And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. Bleeds
- Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. Exhausts
- When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks… Abroad
- The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who… Charge
- A joke's a very serious thing. Humor
- Patience is sorrow's salve. Inspirational
- With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. Dull
- Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. Dullness
- Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone. All
- View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where… All