Isle Quotes

63 Isle quotes by 56 unique authors

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
Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill… — Zakk Wylde
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot.… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest… — Jorge Luis Borges
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will… — William Shakespeare
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. — James Thurber
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild… — George Lopez
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I… — Pablo Neruda
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell

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