Adieu Quotes - Page 2

• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Water, Doubt

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".

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• Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Party, Farewell, Secret

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• A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for His pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later. Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.

  Theophane Venard

  Father, Spring, Flower

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• The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

  T. H. White

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.120, Penguin

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• O tyrant love, when held by you,
  We may to prudence bid adieu.
  [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens
  On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, Tyrants, May

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• Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

  Robert W. Service

  Years, Old Year, Progress

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beautiful, Girl, Mets

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• He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

  Walter Scott

  Love, Rivers, Said

  Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake”, p.255

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