adieu quotes

He turn'd him right and round about, Upon the Irish shore, And gae his bridle reins a shake, With, Adieu for evermore, my dear, And Adieu for evermore!

- Robert Burns
  'It was a' for our rightfu' king', stanza 3.

   Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto1, stanza13.

Adieu tristesse Bonjour tristesse. Farewell sadness Hello sadness.

- Paul pseudonym of  Euge'  ne Grindel EŁ  luard
  Poe  sie et ve  rite , 'La Vie imme  diate'.

Adieu,Farewell, itcame witha lass, it will passwith a lass.

-JamesV
  Said on his deathbed,14 Dec, on hearing of the birth of his daughter Mary, referring to the Crown of Scotland passing from the Stewarts. Quoted in Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie (c.1532^1580)  The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland (published 1728), vol.1.

   The moment that the very name of Ireland ismentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.

- Rev Sydney Smith
^8  Peter Plymley's Letters.

Everything presses onwhilst thou art twisting that lock,see! It grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and everyabsence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make.

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram toJenny.Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.8.