Never

Quotes using the idea of Never

• Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen.

Sourced

• Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
  Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
  Never met - or never parted,
  We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
  • Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss

• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
  • Winston Churchill, Speech in the House of Commons, 20 August 1940 [1]

• Captain: Though related to a peer,
  I can hand, reef, and steer,
  And ship a selvagee;
  I am never known to quail
  At the fury of a gale,
  And I'm never, never sick at sea!
  Chorus: What, never?
  Captain: No, never!
  Chorus: What, never?
  Captain: Hardly ever!
  • W. S. Gilbert, H. M. S. Pinafore

• Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'.
  • Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

• No, no, no life!
  Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
  And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
  Never, never, never, never, never!
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, scene iii

• And silence their mourning
  With vows of returning
  But never intending to visit them more.
  No never, no never, intending to visit them more.
  
  • Nahum Tate, Dido and Aeneas (music by Henry Purcell)

• Thou shalt hear the 'Never, never', whispered by the phantom years.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 83

• Her uncle drove a taxi which he had purchased on the 'never never' system. You pay $80 down and more than you can afford for the rest of your life.
  • Edgar Wallace, novel "More Educated Evans" (1926)

• I'll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom;
  I'll love you till the clover has lost its perfume.
  I'll love you till the poets run out of rhyme,
  Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time.
  • The Twelfth of Never, by Paul Webster & Jerry Livingston [2]

• The Moment of Death; or, The Never, Never Land
  • Israel Zangwill, Title of play (1900)

Books and Film

• Peter Pan (originally titled Peter Pan and Wendy). Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Never land as leader of the Lost Boys.
  • J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), possibly referring to Israel Zangwill's play

• Finding Neverland, Academy Award-winning film released in 2004. Semi-fictional account of the experiences of Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie that led him to write the children's classic.

• Never Say Never Again, Warner Bros. film released in 1983, is the unofficial remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, starring Sean Connery as the famous British Secret Service agent.