Quotations for Prom Night
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet...
~Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1812
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me, a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters;
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
~W. H. Auden, "Death's Echo," 1936
I climbed up the door and opened the stairs.
I said my pajamas and put on my prayers.
I turned off the bed and crawled into the light,
And all because you kissed me goodnight.
~Eddie Pola and George Wyle, "I Said My Pajamas (And Put On My Prayers)," 1949
Here's to the Clock!
Whose hands, we pray heaven,
When we come home at three,
Have stopped at eleven!
~Oliver Herford, "To the Clock"
But it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them... ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
Where's the man could ease a heart
Like a satin gown?...
~Dorothy Parker
...most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!...
~Lord Byron
And the night shall be filled with music... ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...you are the music
While the music lasts...
~T. S. Eliot
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective, 1896
April dress'd in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing...
~William Shakespeare
...time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married, 1912 [quoteinvestigator.com]