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

Quote by Charles Churchill

Topics: Genius Quotes

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

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

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

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

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 of no country.

Genius is of no country.

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.

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 independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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.

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.

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...