Feather Quotes
183 quotes by 156 authors
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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never…
— Toni Morrison
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Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
— Isabel Allende
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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day,…
— Thornton Wilder
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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
— Paul Valery
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It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.
— Agatha Christie
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated…
— Virginia Woolf
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While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.
— Patricia Briggs
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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred…
— Diane Setterfield
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The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather…
— Dean Koontz
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Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
— Mercedes Lackey
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Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.
— Stephen King
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Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my…
— Jodi Picoult
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to…
— Robert Frost
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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings.…
— Charles Dickens
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She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.
— Erin Hunter
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through…
— Betty Smith
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Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for,…
— James Patterson
Who Wrote These Feather Quotes
156 authors contributed a total of 183 Feather Quotes, led by these top contributors: