Exaggeration Misleads Quotes by Eliza Cook

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

— Eliza Cook

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

— Eliza Cook

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

— Eliza Cook

“Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.”

— Eliza Cook

“The caw of a rook on its homeward way, Oh! These shall be the music for me, For I love I love the path…

— Eliza Cook

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

— Eliza Cook

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

— Eliza Cook