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Nightingales Quotes

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

Plutarch
Men, Heard, Nightingales
Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.99, Modern Library

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

Epictetus
Swans, Nightingales
Epictetus (1877). “Selections from Epictetus”, p.21

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

John Keats
Divine, Nightingales
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

Ben Aaronovitch
Holy, Paranormal, Nightingales
Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.173, Del Rey

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

Steven Moffat
People, Sparrows, Nightingales

Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

Mehmet Murat Ildan
Music, Said, Nightingales

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

Megan Chance
Walks, Nightingales
Source: www.omnivoracious.com

The nightingale is sovereign of song.

Edmund Spenser
Song, Sovereign, Nightingales
Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.286

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