Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,— Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
Lord Byron
Nature
A quote by Lord Byron
From the source
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 839.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.