Crowd Quote by Thomas Gray

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the…

— Thomas Gray

“To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.”

— A.E. Coppard

Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but…

— Suzanne Collins

How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who,…

— Honorius Augustodunensis

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are…

— Agnes Repplier

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen…

— Thomas Gray

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended…

— Thomas Gray

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

— Ovid

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for…

— Richard Aldington

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's…

— Ambrose Bierce