Feathers Quotes

351 quotes by 296 authors

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
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of… — Tom Robbins
Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather. — Patricia Briggs
Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and… — Cornelia Funke
A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is… — Anne Bronte
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
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
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing… — Clive Barker
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat. — Mercedes Lackey
Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun… — Leonard Cohen
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page… — John Steinbeck
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
He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just… — Brandon Mull
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange… — Denise Levertov
After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind… — W S Merwin
He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the… — Margaret Mitchell

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