Nightingales Quotes
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Nightingales Quotes & Sayings
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
— Philip James Bailey
Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.
— Maureen Daly
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?
— Rumi
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
— John Keats
The nightingale is sovereign of song.
— Edmund Spenser
Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales.
— Ivan Turgenev
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
— Janet Flanner
You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
O brain, be flowers that nightingales may come to sing!
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Nightingales sang about her wherever she went.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
— Robert Schumann
