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Parting: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I. You do not blush to wish it so? You would have blush'd yourself to death To own so much a year ago. What! both these snowy hands? ah, then I'll have to say, Good-night again.— T. B. ALDRICH — Palabras Cariñosas.
Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.— BYRON — Fare Thee Well.
Let's not unman each other-part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.— BYRON — Sardanapalus. Act V. Sc. 1.
Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 10.
We two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years.— BYRON — When We Two Parted.
One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.— DODSLEY — Colin's Kisses. The Parting
Kiss. In every parting there is an image of death.— GEORGE ELIOT — Amos Barton. Ch. X.
Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.— GAY — The Hare and Many Friends. L. 61.
We only part to meet again.— GAY — Black-eyed Susan. St. 4.
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.— LONGFELLOW — Three Friends of Mine. Pt. IV.
Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between The one and the other, a sea;- Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!— BULWER-LYTTON — A Lament. L. 10.
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.— THOS. OTWAY — The Orphan. Act III. Sc. 1.
Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no, I dare not.— THOMAS PERCY — Reliques. Corydon's
Farewell to Phillis. My Book and Heart Shall never part. S. From the New England Primer. 1814. Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to part.— PRIOR — The Thief and the Cordelier.
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay, - What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.— SIR WALTER RALEIGH — Dulcina.
See CAYLEY'S Life of Raleigh. Vol. I. Ch. III. Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 185.
If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. Julius Cæsar. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 121. They say he parted well, and paid his score; And so, God be with him!— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 8. L. 52.
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.— SHENSTONE — A Pastoral Ballad. Absence. Pt. I.
And must we part? Well, if we must-we must-and in that case The less is said the better. C.— R. B. SHERIDAN — The Critic. Act II. Sc. 2.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark.— TENNYSON — Crossing the Bar.
She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.— FRANCIS THOMPSON — Daisy. St. 12.
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.— YOUNG — Love of Fame. Satire II. L. 232.