| 67 Famous Quotes by Charles Churchill
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“Apt Alliteration's artful aid.”
Authorship Quotes Source: The Prophecy of Famine (l. 86)
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“Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.”
Folly Quotes Source: Apology (l. 42)
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“Patience is sorrow's salve.”
Patience Quotes Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
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“No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.”
Statesmanship Quotes Source: Night (l. 271)
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“But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.”
Feeling Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 961)
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“Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”
Mind Quotes Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 647)
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“He's of stature somewhat low--
Your hero always should be tall, you know.”
Heroes Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,029)
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“Appearances to save, his only care;
So things seem right, no matter what they are.”
Appearance Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 299)
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“Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.”
Fashion Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 455)
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“Man and wife,
Coupled together for the sake of strife.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,005)
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to
persuade my wife to marry me.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,005)
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“Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,005)
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“Not without art, but yet to Nature true.”
Nature Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 699)
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“Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse--
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,
Defacing first, then claiming for his own.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: The Apology (l. 232)
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“Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.”
Sweetness Quotes Source: Gotham (bk. II, l. 20)
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“Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.”
Satire Quotes Source: Ghost (bk. III, l. 943)
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“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Jesting Quotes Source: Ghost (bk. 4)
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“And if you mean to profit, learn to please.”
Gain Quotes Source: Gotham (bk. II, l. 88)
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“Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
Friends Quotes Source: The Apology (l. 19)
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“Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend,
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.”
Friends Quotes Source: Conference (l. 297)
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“The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own.”
Religion Quotes Source: Epistle to Hogarth (l. 25)
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“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.”
Criticism Quotes Source: Apology (l. 94)
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“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,
They damn those authors whom they never read.”
Criticism Quotes Source: The Candidate (l. 57)
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“A servile race
Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;
Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,
Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.”
Criticism Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 183)
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“But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.”
Criticism Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 961)
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