Charles Churchill

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

— Charles Churchill

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

— Charles Churchill

Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.

— Charles Churchill

Genius is independent of situation.

— Charles Churchill

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

— Charles Churchill

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

— Charles Churchill

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

— Charles Churchill