Stephen Crane Quotes about Lying

Half of tradition is a lie.

Lying, Half, Tradition

Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

Stephen Crane

Strong, Lying, Home

Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

Stephen Crane

Lying, War, Fighting

Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

Stephen Crane

Lying, Men, Horizon

Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Dover Publications

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

Stephen Crane

Lying, Men, Eagles

Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

Stephen Crane

Lying, Average, Sea

Stephen Crane (1993). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.58, Courier Corporation

The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.

Stephen Crane

Lying, Wine, Dark

Stephen Crane (2014). “Stories from the War (Annotated Edition)”, p.161, Jazzybee Verlag

Stephen Crane Quotes about Lying

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