Parrot Quotes

78 Parrot quotes by 64 unique authors

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow… — Peter Ustinov
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is… — George Bernard Shaw
If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me. — Gilbert Gottfried
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot — Mark Twain
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him… — Rick Bragg
If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the… — Nick Flynn
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that… — Richard Stallman
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time;… — Swami Vivekananda
I'm going back to my parrot head friends. — Jimmy Buffett
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of… — William Cowper
The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion — Bobby Gould
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking… — Joseph Conrad
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a… — Marie Corelli
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've… — Steve Irwin
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that… — Mark Twain
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. — Stella Gibbons
A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. — Sylvia Plath
What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a… — C.S. Lewis

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