Agree Quote by 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 more precision…

— 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 most when…

— Charles Churchill

Patience is sorrow's salve.

— Charles Churchill

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set…

— Charles Churchill

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the…

— Charles Churchill

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

— Charles Churchill

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.

— Charles Churchill

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

— Charles Churchill

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

— Charles Churchill

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest,…

— Charles Churchill

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

— Charles Churchill

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

— Charles Churchill