Twilight Quotes
431 quotes by 259 authors
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during…
— Annie Besant
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon…
— Donald C. Peattie
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Just because they broke the law doesn't mean they're condemned forever to a twilight status ... I believe that most Americans feel that for these…
— John McCain
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
— John Milton
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The…
— Douglas MacArthur
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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets…
— Clinton Scollard
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
— John Burroughs
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are…
— George Henry Lewes
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The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of…
— Douglas Coupland
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We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work…
— George W. Bush
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You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
— Michael Gove
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility.…
— Jacki Weaver
Who Wrote These Twilight Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 431 Twilight Quotes, led by these top contributors: