William Shakespeare Quotes, Night Quotes, Jewels Quotes

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

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The year is dying in the night.

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Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Night Quotes

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Morning Quotes , Night Quotes

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

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His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Heart Quotes , Night Quotes

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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The year is dying in the night.

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I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Night Quotes , Fire Quotes

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Wall Quotes , Night Quotes

You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Lying Quotes , Night Quotes

"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Night Quotes

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Business Quotes , Night Quotes

Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

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