#funeral

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#funeral #his #make #many #people

A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#funeral #poetry #death

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#fancy #funeral #great #i #my own

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. ↗

— Stan Laurel

#anyone #face #funeral #him #i

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#beautiful #buried #casket #corpse #cried

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#alive #before #broke #down #filmed

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#casual #clothes #criminal #funeral #lawyer

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#begin #first #funeral #goodman #had

Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family. ↗

— Catharine Arnold

#funeral #mimes #death

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.... The same sort of temptation befell the Christian Carnivora who formed Peter Featherstone's funeral procession; most of them having their minds bent on a limited store which each would have liked to get the most of. The long-recognized blood-relations and connexions by marriage made already a goodly number, which, multiplied by possibilities, presented a fine range for jealous conjecture and pathetic hopefulness. ↗

— George Eliot

#imagination