Farewell

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

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.