Famous quotes containing the words madding crowd, madding and/or crowd:
“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“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)
“The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)