Thomas Gray was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
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A favorite has no friend!
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Hypocrisy
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Glory
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Morning
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
The bee’s collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music’s melting full, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude.
—Thomas Gray
Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Ignorance
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Poetry, One liners
If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Perfection, Faults
Hard unkindness mocks the tear it forced to flow.
—Thomas Gray
Alas, regardless of their doom,
the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Children
Full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Flowers
Thought would destroy their paradise.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Thoughts, Thinking, Paradise
Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Sorrow
Far from the madding crowd
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Insanity
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, await alike the inevitable hour; the path of glory leads but to the grave.
—Thomas Gray
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Economics, Economy
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Dying, Death
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
—Thomas Gray
Topics: Smile
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