funeral quotes
After a funeral, a feast
- W. G. Benham
After a funeral, one drinks.
- Unknown
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and nearly dressed-transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.
- Jessica Mitford
All things that we ordained festival, turn from their office to black funeral; our instruments to melancholy bells, our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast.
- Shakespeare
And all along the path to the cemetery the round dark heads of men crowded silently, and black-scarved faces of women folk, wistfully watch at the banner of death, and the mystery.
- D. H. Lawrence
And we all go with them, into the silent funeral, nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury. I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you which shall be the darkness of God.
- Thomas Sterns Eliot
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
- Charles Lamb
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, and our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.
- Sidney Dobell