The Arabian Nights Quotes

“A loss that can be repaired by money is not of such very great importance.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“WHOEVER TALKS ABOUT WHAT DOES NOT CONCERN HIM, OFTEN HEARS WHAT DOES NOT PLEASE HIM!”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.”
― E. Powys Mathers, The Arabian Nights

“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“We live in biological time, and we have beginnings, middles, and ends.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

“Psychology claims that when you can't sleep at night, you are actually awake in someone's dream.”
― Anonymous, Las mil y una noches: Antología

“It is amazing what women in love will do”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“A truth once seen by a single mind ends up by imposing itself on the totality of human consciousness.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“If you need a hug, give it to someone else.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“A funny thing happened on the way to my potential”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“So Scheherazade began.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“the more one has, the more one wants.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“merchant”
― Muhsin Mahdi, The Arabian Nights

“Only in utter solitude can man be safe from the doings of this vile world! By Allah, life is naught but one great wrong.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“One night when we were sleeping they threw my wife and myself into the sea. My wife, however, was a fairy, and so she did not let me drown, but transported me to an island.”
― Richard Francis Burton, The Arabian Nights

“I took in anything that was new and strange,”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“Whoso meddles in affairs that are no business of his, will hear truths that will not please him.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“doubtless imagine that I have acquired all the wealth and luxury that you see me enjoy without difficulty or danger, but this is far indeed from being the case. I have only reached this happy state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“much is gained by patience,”
― Andrew Lang, The Arabian Nights

“eager to see such a wonderful thing,”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“his eldest daughter, who was his delight and pride, Scheherazade said to him, "Father, I have a favour to ask of you. Will you grant it to me?" "I can refuse you nothing," replied he, "that is just and reasonable." "Then listen," said Scheherazade. "I am determined to stop this barbarous practice of the Sultan's, and to deliver the girls and mothers from the awful fate that hangs over them." "It would be an excellent thing to do," returned the grand-vizir,”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“A company of women without men is, however, as dull as a company of men without women.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“Now her hair is like the nights of disunion and separation and her face like the days of union and delectation; She hath a nose like the edge of the burnished blade and cheeks like purple wine or anemones blood-red: her lips as coral and carnelian shine and the water of her mouth is sweeter than old wine; its taste would quench Hell's fiery pain. Her tongue is moved by wit of high degree and ready repartee: her breast is a seduction to all that see it (glory be to Him who fashioned it and finished it!); and joined thereto are two upper arms smooth and rounded; She hath breasts like two globes of ivory, from whose brightness the moons borrow light, and a stomach with little waves as it were a figured cloth of the finest Egyptian linen made by the Copts, with creases like folded scrolls, ending in a waist slender past all power of imagination; based upon back parts like a hillock of blown sand, that force her to sit when she would fief stand, and awaken her, when she fain would sleep, And those back parts are upborne by thighs smooth and round and by a calf like a column of pearl, and all this reposeth upon two feet, narrow, slender and pointed like spear-blades, the handiwork of the Protector and Requiter, I wonder how, of their littleness, they can sustain what is above them.”
― Richard Burton, The Arabian Nights

“accompanies the Caliph was also a real person of the great family of the Barmecides. He was put to”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights Entertainments

“Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life— what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?”
― Muhsin Mahdi, The Arabian Nights

“Unfortunate king,” said the Sultan, “I will do what I can to avenge you.”
― Andrew Lang, The Arabian Nights