“Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.”
Quote by Charles Churchill
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“Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke
“The more haste, ever the worst speed.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author
“Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“Knaves starve not in the land of fools.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
“Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”
“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author
“Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.”
Source: Works
“The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author
“And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.”
Source: The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2
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