George Crabbe quotes

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain. (George Crabbe)
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
George Crabbe
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
George Crabbe
Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
George Crabbe
T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
George Crabbe
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.
George Crabbe
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
George Crabbe
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
George Crabbe
A master passion is the love of news.
George Crabbe
Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.
George Crabbe
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too late Upon one of these depends his whole estate. (George Crabbe)
And took for truth the test of ridicule.
George Crabbe
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.
George Crabbe
He tried the luxury of doing good.
George Crabbe
In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe
The game is never lost till won.
George Crabbe
Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.
George Crabbe
The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.
George Crabbe
In this fool's paradise he drank delight.
George Crabbe
Cut and come again. (George Crabbe)
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
George Crabbe
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
George Crabbe