Francis Marion Crawford Quotes

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

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

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

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

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

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