| 67 Famous Quotes by Charles Churchill
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“I criticize by creation--not by finding fault.”
Criticism Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 961)
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“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
Oratory Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 322)
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“With various readings stored his empty skull,
Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 591)
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“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 wisely come to mend their fortunes here?”
Scotland Quotes Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 195)
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“The more haste, ever the worst speed.”
Haste Quotes Source: The Ghost (bk. IV, l. 1162)
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“Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.”
Vice Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 137)
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“Matrons, who toss the cup, and see
The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.”
Tea Quotes Source: The Ghost (bk. I, l. 117)
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“And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.”
Reputation Quotes Source: Apology
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“As by the way of innuendo
Lucus is made a non lucendo.”
Trees Quotes Source: The Ghost (bk. II, V, 257)
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“His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.”
Appetite Quotes Source: Gotham III (l. 133)
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“Like the dreams,
Children of night, of indigestion bred.”
Dreams Quotes Source: The Candidate (l. 784)
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“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 he succeeds, the merit's all his own.”
Merit Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,023)
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“With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.”
Envy Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 127)
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“To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.”
Nonsense Quotes Source: The Apology (l. 219)
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“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood;
The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.”
Oak Quotes Source: Gotham
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“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
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“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.”
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