His voice was cloves and nightingales.

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the…

— Janet Fitch

“And across the water, you would swear you could sniff it all; the cinnamon and the cloves, the frankincense and the honey and the…

— Dorothy Dunnett

We smoked a lot of cloves.

— Method Man

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In…

— John Keats

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

— Franny Billingsley

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the…

— Immanuel Kant

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

— Epictetus

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

— Megan Chance

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

— Robert Schumann

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's…

— Denis Healey

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

— Leonard Cohen

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's…

— Epictetus

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost…

— John Milton

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

— Craig Claiborne