Quotes By Charles Churchill

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

Genius is of no country.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

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

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

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

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.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Genius is independent of situation.