Creeps Quotes
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No bird flies near, no tiger creeps; alone the whirlwind, wild and black, assails the tree of death and sweeps away with death upon its back.
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More Creeps Quotes
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
elizabeth bowen— Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris (1935).
And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
john dryden— 1669 Tyrannic Love, prologue.
By degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.
john keats— 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St. Agnes', stanza 26.
His English reminds me of tattered washing on the line?of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. 566
— Of President Warren G Harding. Quoted in Fred Hobson Mencken: A Life (1994).
If only trimmed, it inevitably creeps back?thicker and more deeply rooted than before.
— 1995 Of bureaucracy, compared to crab grass. In theWashington Times,19 May.
Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame Is racked with pains that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame.
Tennyson— 1850 In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 50, l.1-8.
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief.
john dos passos— "Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.
jonathan edwards— To Deborah Hatheway, Letters and Personal Writings (Works of Jonathan Edwards Online Vol. 16) , Ed. George S. Claghorn (1741)
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.
owen feltham— P. 333. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
penn jillette— As quoted in "Thoughts On the Business of Life" in Forbes magazine (12 November 2007)
The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of … so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.
nikita khrushchev— Khrushchev's remarks on his unfriendly reception in California while on a United States Tour. [1]
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act V, scene 1.
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.
joseph addison— Act V, scene i.
How slow the Shadow creeps: but when 'tis past, How fast the Shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
hilaire belloc— "On the Same" (On a Sundial II)
Heat of passion makes our souls to chap, and the devil creeps in at the crannies.
thomas fuller— Of Anger.
The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on, Subject to every doubt that can retard Or fling it back upon an earlier time.
richard henry horne— Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.
Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.
john keats— Stanza 26. (The Eve of St. Agnes)
Along A River-Side, I Know Not Where, I walked one night in mystery of dream ; A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair, To think what chanced me by the pallid gleam Of a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
james russell lowell— The Washers of the Shroud, st. 1 (October 1861).
What thing is love? for (well I wot) love is a thing It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole!
George Peele— "The Hunting of Cupid" (1591).
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes.
William Butler Yeats— The Cat And The Moon
No man ever truly believed, who was not first made sensible of unbelief. True conviction of sin how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.
— Horace Bushnell, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 164.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one it flies as well as creeps.
— Douglas Jerrold, Specimens of Jerrold's Wit, Slander.
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief.
— "Grosz Comes to America," Esquire, 1936
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. Electric rock music creeps, like chemical seasoning, into everything. Rock and roll is mother's little helper on the housewife radio, plays across film sound-tracks and sells packaged goods.
— Peter York (1980) Style wars, p. 194
Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (1717), line 243.
Of all trees , I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove . Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses , it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.
— Owen Feltham, p. 333. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Of bushes low, as when, on cloudy days, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
james russell lowell— An Indian-Summer Reverie, Stanza 11, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922, p. 45)
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Of bushes low, as when, on cloudy days, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
james russell lowell— An Indian-Summer Reverie, Stanza 11, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 45.
