Nightingale Quote by Stephen Leather

“Jack Nightingale: "So I'm a hero?" Supt. Chalmers: "No, Nightingale, you're an arsehole. But I can't arrest you for that.”

— Stephen Leather

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

— Franz Kafka

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost…

— John Milton

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

— Megan Chance

“Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and…

— William Wordsworth

“Her statistics were more than a study... For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is…

— Karl Pearson

“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about…

— Ben Aaronovitch

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

— Epictetus

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

— Megan Chance

“Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by…

— Elizabeth von Arnim