Done Quote by Rebecca West

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches…

— Aldous Huxley

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

— Mark Hart

“The great charm of St Francis, that which explains the wonderful attraction he has even for spirits apparently removed from him, is that no…

— Gabriel Faure

“Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that divine darkness…

— G.K. Chesterton

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on…

— Oscar Wilde

“one day went upon the platform and was ready to deliver a sermon when he heard a swallow singing. "Listen," said he, "that small…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“No matter how much the original Rule of St. Francis has changed, I think his spirit and his inspiration are still the fundamental thing…

— Thomas Merton

...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming…

— David Foster Wallace

“God must have loved the birds, or he would not have given them wings that he gave to his angels.”

— Arash Hejazi

“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Mister Pope continued, “Now there are cliffs on both coasts. There’s an ocean on either coast. I mean, you are a bird. You aren’t…

— Mark T. Sneed

“She'd never know what to do with children: Francis had wrong-footed her so completely that she'd come to think of them as delightful but…

— Sarah Perry