113 Quotes by George Crabbe

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

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

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.

Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

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

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

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

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.