Wells Gray Provincial

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

    “All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)

    “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
    Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

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