Plumage Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the… — Thomas Paine
I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful.… — Christopher Cokinos
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to… — W G Sebald
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more… — Barbara Pym
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. — Aeschylus
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's… — Jean Anouilh
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the… — Alexander Pope
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage,… — Ogden Nash
I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were… — Christian Louboutin
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and… — Charlotte Bronte
I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage. — Kami Garcia
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. — Saadi
My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage. — Rosecrans Baldwin
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. — Peter R. Grant
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. — Peter R. Grant

Who Wrote These Plumage Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Plumage Quotes as follows: