Link Copied!
Dinah Craik Quotes (1826-1887)
Poet, Novelist
About Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. Born Dinah Maria Mulock, the name under which her first works were published, her work has also been presented as by Dinah Craik, Dinah Maria Craik, Dinah Mulock Craik, and simply Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik.
Best Dinah Craik Quotes
Shortest
Earliest
Explore our curated collection of the most famous and impactful Dinah Craik quotes.
“A parent, unlike a poet, is not born, he is made.”
“Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.”
“The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendour.”
Made sunshine rifts of splendour.”
“Immortality
Alone could teach this mortal how to die.”
Alone could teach this mortal how to die.”
“[T]here are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.”
“O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.”
“It's astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.”
“Two hands upon the breast,
And labour’s done;
Two pale feet crossed in rest,
The race is won.”
And labour’s done;
Two pale feet crossed in rest,
The race is won.”
“One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.”
“Half the sting of poverty is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comments of one's neighbours.”
“Lo! all life this truth declares!
Laborare est orare;
And the whole earth rings with prayers.”
Laborare est orare;
And the whole earth rings with prayers.”
“To accept the inevitable, neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it, simply to bear it — this is the great lesson of life.”
“Nothing but a speck we seem
In the waste of waters round,
Floating, floating like a dream, —
Outward bound.”
In the waste of waters round,
Floating, floating like a dream, —
Outward bound.”
“Down in the deep, up in the sky,
I see them always, far or nigh,
And I shall see them till I die —
I see them always, far or nigh,
And I shall see them till I die —
The old familiar faces.
”
“"Get out o' Mr. Fletcher's road, ye idle, lounging, little — "
"Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Walkins, once my nurse,) was going to say, but she changed her mind.”
"Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Walkins, once my nurse,) was going to say, but she changed her mind.”
“Sweet April-time — O cruel April-time!
Year after year returning, with a brow
Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,
And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys
Of vanished springs, like flowers.”
Year after year returning, with a brow
Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,
And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys
Of vanished springs, like flowers.”
Dinah Craik Quotes by Topic
Find exactly what you are looking for by browsing this categorized list of Dinah Craik quotes by topic.
Dinah Craik on Happiness 5 quotes
“The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.”
Dinah Craik on Love 4 quotes
“Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.”
Dinah Craik on Birds 3 quotes
“Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.”
Dinah Craik on Friendship 2 quotes
“As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port—heaven,— Friend, what years could us divide?”
Dinah Craik on Poetry about love 2 quotes
“Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please—just as he please.”
Dinah Craik on Truth 2 quotes
“No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs — the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then — face the world.”
Dinah Craik on Christmas 2 quotes
“God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.”
Dinah Craik on Time 2 quotes
“... on the confines of this world, or from the unknown shores of the next, the question meets them: "What have you done with Time?" —Time, the only mortal gift bestowed equally on every living soul, and, excepting the soul, the only mortal loss which is totally irretrievable.”
Dinah Craik on Secrecy
“A secret at home is like rocks under tide.”
Quotes About Dinah Craik
Gain deeper perspective through quotes about Dinah Craik from others.
Ch. on Dinah Craik 26 quotes
“For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"”
Source on Dinah Craik
“Nevertheless, taking life as a whole, believing that it consists not in what we have, but in our power of enjoying the same; that there are in it things nobler and dearer than ease, plenty, or freedom from care — nay, even than existence itself; surely it is not Quixotism, but common-sense and Christianity, to protest that love is better than outside show, labour than indolence, virtue than mere respectability”
Misattributed Quotes
Quotes mistakenly credited to Dinah Craik
About Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. Born Dinah Maria Mulock, the name under which her first works were published, her work has also been presented as by Dinah Craik, Dinah Maria Craik, Dinah Mulock Craik, and simply Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik.
QuotesCosmos Cross-Civilizational Archive
Explore Related Wisdom Pillars, Worldviews & Canonical Works
Discover how humanity's greatest philosophers, sacred scriptures, and literary masterpieces address the core questions of existence.
30 Wisdom Pillars
22 Worldviews & Traditions
Canonical Books & Scriptures