Isle Quotes
63 Isle quotes by 56 unique authors
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I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is…
— Penelope Keith
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to…
— Robert Duvall
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This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.
— William Shakespeare
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When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my…
— Terri Windling
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In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was given an awesome…
— Roy Hession
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It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.
— Joni Mitchell
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When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name…
— William Shakespeare
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From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
— Robert Browning
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Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in…
— John Keble
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A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely…
— Mary C. Ames
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the…
— Northrop Frye
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many…
— William E. Gladstone
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At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was…
— Keith Emerson
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At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the…
— Jeremy Irons
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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain…
— Jay Kay
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Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
— Stephen Leacock
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The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini…
— Tom Waits
Who Wrote These Isle Quotes
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