Charles Churchill Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

  Charles Churchill

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.89

• Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Giving, Credit

  'Night' (1761) l. 311

• The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

  Charles Churchill

  Lying, Acting, Crime

  'An Epistle to William Hogarth' (1763) l. 51

• 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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