Charles Churchill Quotes & Sayings

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

“The best things carried to excess are wrong.”

“Patience is sorrow's salve.”

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

“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.”

“Genius is independent of situation.”

“Genius is of no country.”

“Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.”

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

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