Charles Churchill

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

— Charles Churchill

Patience is sorrow's salve.

— Charles Churchill

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

— Charles Churchill

To copy faults is want of sense.

— Charles Churchill

All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

— Charles Churchill

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

— Charles Churchill

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

— Charles Churchill

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

— Charles Churchill

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

— Charles Churchill

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.

— Charles Churchill

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

— Charles Churchill

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

— Charles Churchill

Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

— Charles Churchill

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

— Charles Churchill

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

— Charles Churchill

If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey.

— Charles Churchill

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest…

— Charles Churchill

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing…

— Charles Churchill

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which…

— Charles Churchill

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the…

— Charles Churchill

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a…

— Charles Churchill

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound…

— Charles Churchill

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about…

— Charles Churchill

View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's…

— Charles Churchill

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person,…

— Charles Churchill

No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and…

— Charles Churchill

This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)…

— Charles Churchill

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents…

— Charles Churchill

What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no…

— Charles Churchill

The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in…

— Charles Churchill

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind…

— Charles Churchill

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,…

— Charles Churchill

In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a…

— Charles Churchill

What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who…

— Charles Churchill

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

— Charles Churchill

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

— Charles Churchill

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

— Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

— Charles Churchill

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

— Charles Churchill

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

— Charles Churchill