Isle Quotes

63 Isle quotes by 56 unique authors

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
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
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. — William Shakespeare
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
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
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well. — Joni Mitchell
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
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. — Robert Browning
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. — Stephen Leacock
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

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