George Crabbe
9 quotes
Biography
George Crabbe was an English poet and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people.
"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."
"The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace."
"A master passion is the love of news."
"Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain."
"The mind here exhibited is one untouched by pity, unstung by remorse, and uncorrected by shame; yet is this hardihood of temper and spirit broken by want, disease, solitude, and disappointment, and he becomes the victim of a distempered and horror-stricken fancy."
"Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth."
"Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a noise."
"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."
"Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way."