Top 50 George Crabbe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Let’s learn to live, for we must die alone.”

— George Crabbe

2. “In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.”

— George Crabbe

3. “The game is never lost till won.”

— George Crabbe

4. “Life’s bloomy flush was lost.”

— George Crabbe

5. “Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.”

— George Crabbe

6. “A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.”

— George Crabbe

7. “Life is not measured by the time we live.”

— George Crabbe

8. “I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.”

— George Crabbe

9. “With eye upraised his master’s look 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

10. “Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”

— George Crabbe

11. “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

12. “Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.”

— George Crabbe

13. “Fashion, though Folly’s child, and guide of fools, Rules e’en the wisest, and in learning rules.”

— George Crabbe

14. “All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o’er the grael spread.”

— George Crabbe

15. “Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.”

— George Crabbe

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16. “I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.”

— George Crabbe

17. “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

18. “Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.”

— George Crabbe

19. “Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.”

— George Crabbe

20. “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

21. “Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.”

— George Crabbe

22. “The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.”

— George Crabbe

23. “Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.”

— George Crabbe

24. “With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.”

— George Crabbe

25. “Hence, in these times, untouch’d the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.”

— George Crabbe

26. “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

27. “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

28. “To the house of a friend if you’re pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.”

— George Crabbe

29. “Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!”

— George Crabbe

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30. “Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.”

— George Crabbe

31. “There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.”

— George Crabbe

32. “From powerful causes spring the empiric’s gains, Man’s love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

— George Crabbe

33. “Feed the musician, and he’s out of tune.”

— George Crabbe

34. “Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.”

— George Crabbe

35. “We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.”

— George Crabbe

36. “Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”

— George Crabbe

37. “He tried the luxury of doing good.”

— George Crabbe

38. “An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.”

— George Crabbe

39. “Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man’s most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!”

— George Crabbe

40. “A master passion is the love of news.”

— George Crabbe

41. “Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.”

— George Crabbe

42. “Good is done by degrees.”

— George Crabbe

43. “Learning is better worth than houses or land.”

— George Crabbe

44. “Temp’rate in every place – abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either – he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.”

— George Crabbe

45. “But monument themselves memorials need.”

— George Crabbe

46. “Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.”

— George Crabbe

47. “Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.”

— George Crabbe

48. “Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth.”

— George Crabbe

49. “Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.”

— George Crabbe

50. “Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.”

— George Crabbe