Gray

Famous quotes containing the word gray:

“Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

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

“‘Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
Confusion on thy banners wait,”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)