More Quote by Benjamin Jowett

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions.…

— Benjamin Jowett

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels…

— Anton Oliver

“I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added that naturally he was!' 'It's…

— E.F. Benson

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

— Cecil Frances Alexander

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would…

— George Herbert

Beneath the trees there is no ease For the dull brain, the sharp desires And the quick eyes of Woolly Bear. There is no…

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic…

— Norman Mailer

In the well-ordered home we may experience a taste of heaven.

— David O. McKay

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

— Andrew Marvell

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only…

— Stephen King

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

— Ronald Reagan