Isles Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses. — Pablo Neruda
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… — John Milton
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. — George Mikes
For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation… — Susan Brigden
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house… — Khalil Gibran
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
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
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. — Robert Browning
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
Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. — James Thurber
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
We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles — Tess Gerritsen

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