Charles Churchill Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

  Charles Churchill

  Hurt, Praise, Hurt Me

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.83

• If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

  Charles Churchill

  Mean, Flattery, Praise

• The stage I chose--a subject fair and free--
  'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property.
  All common exhibitions open lie,
  For praise or censure, to the common eye.
  Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed;
  Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread.
  This is a general tax which all must pay,
  From those who scribble, down to those who play.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Eye, Play

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.43

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