Nightingales Quotations

The nightingale is sovereign of song.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.