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

Quote by Charles Churchill

Topics: Beauty Quotes, Fame Quotes, Faults Quotes, Senses Quotes

Genius is of no country.

Genius is of no country.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

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.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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...

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

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 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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...