The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The more laws, the less justice.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Genius is independent of situation.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
CHARLES CHURCHILL His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands coo...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Falsehoods border on truths.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Everyone has his besetting sin.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Every man's friend is no man's friend.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Every animal loves itself.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Do nothing twice over.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
CHARLES CHURCHILL As you sow, so shall you also reap.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
CHARLES CHURCHILL All soils are not fertile.
CHARLES CHURCHILL A wise man does nothing by constraint.
CHARLES CHURCHILL A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Patience is sorrow's salve.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.
CHARLES CHURCHILL And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
CHARLES CHURCHILL His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes a...
CHARLES CHURCHILL The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
CHARLES CHURCHILL A joke's a very serious thing.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
CHARLES CHURCHILL I criticize by creation--not by finding fault.
CHARLES CHURCHILL But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In suc...
CHARLES CHURCHILL A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient...
CHARLES CHURCHILL And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause; And aiming at t...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
CHARLES CHURCHILL He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
CHARLES CHURCHILL With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Genius is of no country.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. A...
CHARLES CHURCHILL View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
CHARLES CHURCHILL My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
CHARLES CHURCHILL To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The more haste, ever the worst speed.
CHARLES CHURCHILL He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands,
Who understands the ...
CHARLES CHURCHILL The best things carried to excess are wrong.
CHARLES CHURCHILL With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
CHARLES CHURCHILL No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
CHARLES CHURCHILL As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still
CHARLES CHURCHILL Even in a hero's heart, Discretion is the better part
CHARLES CHURCHILL Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone;/ Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
CHARLES CHURCHILL With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
CHARLES CHURCHILL How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
CHARLES CHURCHILL How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write o...
CHARLES CHURCHILL Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.
CHARLES CHURCHILL He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
CHARLES CHURCHILL With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The danger chiefly lies in acting well,/ No crime's so great as daring to excel.
CHARLES CHURCHILL So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
CHARLES CHURCHILL To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
CHARLES CHURCHILL Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
CHARLES CHURCHILL To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
CHARLES CHURCHILL A joke's a very serious thing.
CHARLES CHURCHILL It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Patience is sorrow's salve.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand befo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the pat...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...
WINSTON CHURCHILL For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
WINSTON CHURCHILL To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL History is written by the victors.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No crime is so great as daring to excel.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I never worry about action, but only inaction.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but tha...
WARD CHURCHILL Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
WARD CHURCHILL There's always merit to having a debate.
WARD CHURCHILL They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate ...
WARD CHURCHILL There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
WARD CHURCHILL If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence wh...
WARD CHURCHILL When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn'...
WARD CHURCHILL If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won...
WARD CHURCHILL I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. fore...
WARD CHURCHILL Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
WINSTON CHURCHILL One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
WINSTON CHURCHILL This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am easily satisfied with the very best.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never, never, never give up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is in the details.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
WINSTON CHURCHILL MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
WINSTON CHURCHILL My education was interrupted only by my schooling
WINSTON CHURCHILL The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I wanted to make a clever chemistry joke, but the best ones argon.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He who laughs last didn't get it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is anot...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or pett...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
WINSTON CHURCHILL As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
SARAH CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ma...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says somethi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful
WINSTON CHURCHILL Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning
WINSTON CHURCHILL They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungr...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ...
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