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

Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill

Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill

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

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.
Charles Churchill

Patience is sorrow's salve.
Charles Churchill

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill

The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill

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

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Charles Churchill

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

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