Francis Marion Crawford Quotes & Sayings

Fill your mouth with pebbles, and howl at the sea, if you cannot do anything else. — Francis Marion Crawford

There is no such consolation to a born coward as a logical reason for not doing what he is afraid to do — Francis Marion Crawford

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. — Francis Marion Crawford

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world. — Francis Marion Crawford

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. — Francis Marion Crawford

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. — Francis Marion Crawford

Like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal ... — Francis Marion Crawford

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener. — Francis Marion Crawford

I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood. — Francis Marion Crawford

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world. — Francis Marion Crawford

The situation was saved; Brisbane was going to tell a story. — Francis Marion Crawford

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live. — Francis Marion Crawford

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life. — Francis Marion Crawford

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. — Francis Marion Crawford