George Herbert Quotes
1593 – 1633
Welsh-born English poet and Anglican priest, compiler of the proverb collection 'Jacula Prudentum' (1651).
26 quotesAbout George Herbert on Wikipedia
“My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial.”
“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: for wit is news only to ignorance.”
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.”
“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”
“Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
“Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.”
“Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angels' music.”
“Who goes to bed and does not pray, Maketh two nights to every day.”
“Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.”
“Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recovered greenness?”
“Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin.”
“You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: So I did sit and eat.”
“Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.”
“Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?”
