“ It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? ”
- Bram Stoker- Copy
- 783
“ The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
- 678
“ An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
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“ Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.'. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ A metaphysician is a man who goes into a dark cellar at midnight without a light, looking for a black cat that is not there. ”
- Lord Bowen- Copy
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“ O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
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“ I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose over the city, Behind the dark church tower. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
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“ Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises. ”
- Leontyne Price- Copy
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“ The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. ”
- James B. Hill- Copy
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“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ”
- John Wayne- Copy
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“ Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly, on a pale and anxious crowd, through the court, and round the judges, thronging thickly, with prayers none dare to speak aloud. Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar- You can see them through the gloom- In pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are awaiting their death doom. ”
- Jane Wilde- Copy
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“ I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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