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Midnight Quotes - Page 4

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

William Shenstone, “Elegy Xi. He Complains How Soon The Pleasing Novelty Of Life Is Over”

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4254, BookCaps Study Guides

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.69

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.270, Harriet Beecher Stowe

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

It starts at midnight.

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.327, Scholastic Inc.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.703, Library of America

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318