Feathers Quotes

351 quotes by 296 authors

Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. — Martial
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they… — Pliny the Elder
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. — George Herbert
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all… — Plutarch
To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with… — Cecil Day-Lewis
I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're… — Orson Welles
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man… — Luther Burbank
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg.… — Mike Harding
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes. — Susan Blackmore
Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no… — Bradley Cooper
No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But… — John Keats
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off… — John Keats
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the… — Izaak Walton
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! — Allen Ginsberg
I may have a feather duster down my pants. — Johnny Depp
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. — Katharine Hepburn
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if… — William Ralph Inge
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. — Helen Keller

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