Midnight Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Midnight Quotes
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“Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes
Source: A Summer Evening's Meditation (l. 48)
“That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Tam o' Shanter
“It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes
Source: Purgatorio (canto XV, l. 5)
“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 Quotes
Source: Bridge
“Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Two Rivers (pt. I)
“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 Quotes
Source: Midnight
“'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”
Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) Quotes
Source: Ina (sc. 2)
“Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 667)
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
“Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!”
Horace Smith and James Smith Quotes
Source: Rejected Addresses--The Rebuilding, (imitation of Southey)
“Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.”
Robert Southey Quotes
Source: Curse of Kehama (pt. I, 1)