“It was a dark and stormy night.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle223
American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
“And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Source: The Complete English Poems
“Enchantress of the stormy seas,
Priestess of Night's high mysteries.”
Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) United States poet
Moonrise in May.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648) Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
"To his Mistress for her True Picture", line 49
Edward Bulwer-Lytton book Paul Clifford
Probably the most parodied and ridiculed opening line in literature. It is the inspiration for a satirical prize, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Used by Charles M. Schultz in the Peanuts cartoons.
Paul Clifford (1830)
“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”
James Thomson (poet) The Seasons
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1002.
“Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Daughter of the Blood
