Charles Churchill Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

67 Famous Quotes by Charles Churchill
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“Patience is sorrow's salve.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“A wise man does nothing by constraint.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“All soils are not fertile.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“As you sow, so shall you also reap.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Do nothing twice over.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Every animal loves itself.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Every man's friend is no man's friend.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Everyone has his besetting sin.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Falsehoods border on truths.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.”
Fame Quotes
Source: The Author (l. 233)
“Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.”
Justice Quotes
Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 1)
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Justice Quotes
Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 1)
“His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife.”
Voice Quotes
Source: Rosciad (l. 1,003)
“Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.”
England Quotes
Source: The Farewell
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.”
Thought Quotes
Source: Epistle to Wm. Hogarth (l. 645)
“Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.”
Poets Quotes
Source: Independence (l. 95)