Wells Gray Provincial

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

    “To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.”
    —Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)

    “No gray hairs streak my soul,
    no grandfatherly fondness there!
    I shake the world with the might of my voice,
    and walk—handsome,
    twentytwoyearold.”
    —Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)

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