"NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast……" — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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This quote is filed under Carrion Quotes, one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion… — William Shakespeare
• All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the… — John Harvey Kellogg
• The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. — John Harvey Kellogg
• They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed… — John Harvey Kellogg
• Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down… — Homer
• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want."… — E. M. Forster
• The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person… — John James Audubon
• Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee: — Gerard Manley Hopkins
• A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only… — Nikhil Saluja

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