What did Charles Churchill mean by: Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. Charles Churchill Poet · England Copy
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense Read explanation Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Beauty, Fame, Sense, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Envy, Ignorance, Judgment, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Cowardice, Fear, Silence, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play’d And wonder’d at the work herself had made. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Creation, Nature, Wonder, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Justice, Merit, Recognition, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Forgiveness, Judgment, Wit, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Fashion–a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Critique, Deception, Vanity, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime’s so great as daring to excel. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Churchill, Crime, Excellence, Jealousy, 0 Charles Churchill Poet · England
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms. Frank Herbert Author · USA
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true? Jean Racine Playwright · France