Farewell

Farewell is a salutation conveying a wish of happiness or welfare at parting, especially a permanent departure.

Quotes

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 260-61.

• 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,
  With Adieu for evermore.
  • Robert Burns, It Was a' for our Rightfu' King. Used and altered by Scott in Rokeby and Monastery.

• Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—
  A sound which makes us linger;—yet—farewell!
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 186.

• "Farewell!"
  For in that word—that fatal word—howe'er
  We promise—hope—believe—there breathes despair.
  • Lord Byron, Corsair, Canto I, Stanza 15.

• Fare thee well! and if for ever,
  Still for ever, fare thee well.
  • Lord Byron, Fare Thee Well.

• "Adieu," she cries, and waved her lily hand.
  • John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.

• Friend, ahoy! Farewell! farewell!
  Grief unto grief, joy unto joy,
  Greeting and help the echoes tell
  Faint, but eternal—Friend, ahoy!
  • Helen Hunt Jackson, Verses, Friend, Ahoy!

• Though I often salute you, you never salute me first; I shall therefore, Pontilianus, salute you with an eternal farewell.
  • Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epistle 66.

• Farewell, happy fields,
  Where joy forever dwells; hail, horrors!
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 249.

• Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'.
  • Lady Nairne, Gude Nicht, etc.

• Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell, my Jean,
  Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony day been:
  For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more,
  We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more.
  • Allan Ramsay, Farewell to Lochaber.

• Fare thee well;
  The elements be kind to thee, and make
  Thy spirits all of comfort!
  • William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 2, line 39.

• Sweets to the sweet; farewell!
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 266.

• Farewell, and stand fast.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 2, line 75.

• Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
  That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
  Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
  The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 349.

• Here's my hand.
  And mine, with my heart in't: and now farewell,
  Till half an hour hence.
  • William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act III, scene 1, line 89.

• Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition
  Attend your ladyship!
  • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 146.

• So sweetly she bade me adieu,
  I thought that she bade me return.
  • William Shenstone, A Pastoral Ballad, Part I. Absence, Stanza 5.

See also

• Parting