Best Nightingale Quotes
62 Nightingale quotes by 47 unique authors
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Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
— John Keats
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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
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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
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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
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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
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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
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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
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Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
— Steven Moffat
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.
— Franny Billingsley
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Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
— Ben Aaronovitch
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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
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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
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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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