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)

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

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