Parting

Famous quotes containing the word parting:

    Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow
    That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Look at your [English] ladies of quality—are they not forever parting with their husbands—forfeiting their reputations—and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls—who have politeness, sense and conversation—but these are few—and then look at your trademen’s daughters—what are they?—poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)

    Though her parting dims the day,
    Stealing grace from all alive;
    Heartily know,
    When half-gods go,
    The gods arrive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)