coffin quotes

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Stop all the clocks', Collected Poems. Featured in the1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Like the silver plate on a coffin.

-John Philpot Curran
Of Sir Robert Peel's smile. Quoted by Daniel O'Connell in the House of Commons, 26 Feb1835.

Do you know how they are going to decide the Shakespeare^Bacon dispute? Theyare going to dig up Shakespeareand dig up Bacon; theyaregoing toget Tree to recite Hamlet to them. And the one who turns in his coffin will be the author of the play.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
Letter.

His father gave him a box of truisms Shaped like a coffin, then his father died; 538 The truisms remained on the mantelpiece.

- (Frederick) Louis MacNeice
'The Truisms', in Collected Poems,1966.