Best Nightingales Sayings

75 Nightingales quotes by 57 unique authors

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
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs… — Dylan Thomas
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
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a… — Rumi
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
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The… — Charlotte Bronte
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
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all… — Rumi
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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