night Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

40 night Quotes
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“The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind: There all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 121)
“A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work ended, Lingers as in content, There falls on the old, gray city An influence luminous and serene, A shining peace.”
William Ernest Henley Quotes
Source: Margaritoe Sorori
“The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires Shine and are changed. In the valley Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun Closing his benediction, Sinks, and the darkening air Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,-- Night with train of stars And her great gift of sleep.”
William Ernest Henley Quotes
Source: Margaritoe Sorori
“Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. VIII, l. 605), (Pope's translation)
“At night, to his own dark fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Thomas Hood Quotes
Source: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious Leg
“'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?”
John Keats Quotes
Source: A Prophecy (l. 1)
“And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: The Day is Done
“I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Hymn to the Night
“Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.”
Catherine O'Hara Quotes
“Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.”
Ellen Goodman Quotes
“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”
Frederick L. Knowles Quotes
“A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.”
Samoan Proverb Quotes
“A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
“Boast during the day; be humble at night.”
Maori Proverb Quotes
“Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.”
Aristotle Onassis Quotes