YourDictionary

creep quotes

  • Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.

    - Matthew Arnold
      New Poems,'The Last  Word'.

  •    Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

    -Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'No worst, there is none'.

  • Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark,18  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

  • The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk.

    -John Greenleaf Whittier
      'Lines, Inscribed to Friends UnderArrest forTreason Against the Slave Power', stanza1.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Learn more about creep

link/cite print suggestion box