Best Nightingale Quotes

62 Nightingale quotes by 47 unique authors

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth. — John Keats
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all… — Plutarch
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 a… — Denis Healey
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love… — Joyce Maynard
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the… — Christina Rossetti
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant… — Oscar Wilde
You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole,… — Stella Gibbons
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people. — Steven Moffat
Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I wanted to be… — Federico Garcia Lorca
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a… — E. M. Forster
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown… — Thomas Hardy
It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care… — Soren Kierkegaard
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is… — William Shakespeare
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear… — William Shakespeare
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there… — Oscar Wilde
Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace -… — Ben Aaronovitch
You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I… — Ben Aaronovitch
Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how… — Ben Aaronovitch
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much. — Franny Billingsley
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile. — Ben Aaronovitch
What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked. 'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale. 'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an… — Ben Aaronovitch
Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone… — Ben Aaronovitch
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 part;… — Epictetus

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