Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Quote by Charles Churchill

Topics: Genius Quotes

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

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

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

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a...

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a...

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

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

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

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

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

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Genius is of no country.

Genius is of no country.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the...

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the...

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put...

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put...

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former...

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former...