Madding Crowd

Famous quotes containing the words madding crowd, madding and/or crowd:

    “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
    Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
    Along the cool sequestered vale of life
    They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

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

    “It is summer, it is the solstice
    the crowd is

    cheering, the crowd is laughing
    in detail

    permanently, seriously
    without thought”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)