110 Quotes by Charles Churchill

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

On the four aces doom'd to roll.

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.