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

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

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.

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...

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

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...

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.

Genius is of no country.

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.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess...

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess...

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor!...

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor!...

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but...

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but...

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.