Wells Gray Provincial

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

    “‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Fierce war and faithful love,
    And truth severe, by fairy fiction dressed.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

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