Churchyard Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world… — Richard Baxter
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die,… — H. Rider Haggard
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
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee… — William Shakespeare
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely… — Benjamin Jowett
Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but… — Jill Lepore
Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke
And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the… — John Donne
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and… — Charles Dickens
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would… — Tom Hodgkinson
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw… — Charles Dickens
Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which… — Maggie Stiefvater
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the… — Charles Dickens
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make… — Bram Stoker
On a Tuesday night they were wed, And by Friday they were dead. And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh my… — Cassandra Clare
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard. — Philip Massinger
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. — Benjamin Jowett
No one becomes a good doctor before he fills a churchyard — Swedish Proverb

Who Wrote These Churchyard Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 20 Churchyard Quotes as follows: