Charles Churchill Quotes

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

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

Apt Alliteration’s artful aid.

A joke’s a very serious thing.

Just to the windward of the law.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest. Outward be fair, however foul within; Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.

But, spite of all the criticizing elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

So much they talked, so very little said.

Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

A pert, prim Prater of the northern race, Guilt in his heart, and famine in his face.