Wells Gray Provincial

Famous quotes containing the words wells, gray and/or provincial:

“There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,—or enemies,—or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862?–1942)

“The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)