| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Churchill |
| | | Apt alliteration’s artful aid. | 1 |
| Authors alone, with more than savage rage, / Unnatural war with brother authors wage. | 2 |
| Be England what she will, / With all her faults she is my country still. | 3 |
| But spite of all the criticising elves, / Those that would make us feel, must feel themselves. | 4 |
| Childhood, who like an April morn appears, / Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o’er with fears. | 5 |
| Children of night, of indigestion bred. Of dreams. | 6 |
| Constant attention wears the active mind, / Blots out her powers, and leaves a blank behind. | 7 |
| Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse. | 8 |
| Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. | 9 |
| If honour calls, where’er she points the way, / The sons of honour follow and obey. | 10 |
| Knaves starve not in the land of fools. | 11 |
| Learned without sense and venerably dull. | 12 |
| Let ev’ry man enjoy his whim; / What’s he to me or I to him? | 13 |
| Nature listening stood whilst Shakespeare play’d, / And wonder’d at the work herself had made. | 14 |
| No crime is so great as daring to excel. | 15 |
| No statesman e’er will find it worth his pains / To tax our labours and excise our brains. | 16 |
| No two on earth in all things can agree; / All have some darling singularity. | 17 |
| Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. | 18 |
| With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. | 19 | | |
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