Great saying by great authors Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot Download Open image “Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle.” — Thomas Stearns Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great saying by great authors
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The Fox And The Crow A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh,… — Aesop Copy Share
“As if the virus itself is listening, the she-deer standing in front of him is racked by a huge cough, her skinny body spasming… — Piers Torday Copy Share Image
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Pollicle dogs and cats all must Jellicle cats and dogs all must Like undertakers, come to dust. Here a little dog I pause Heaving… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
There are those who would build the Temple, And those who prefer that theTemple should not be built. In the days of Nehemiah the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community, — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
Beneath the trees there is no ease For the dull brain, the sharp desires And the quick eyes of Woolly Bear. There is no… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
Macavity, Macavity, there's noone like Macavity, He's broken every human law,he breaks the law of gravity. — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
A rat crept softly through the vegetation Dragging its slimy belly on the bank While I was fishing in the dullcanal On a winter… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
The tiger in the tiger-pit Is not more irritable than I. The whipping tail is not morestill Than when I smell the enemy Writhing… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
“At the first turning of the second stair I turned and saw below The same shape twisted on the banister Under the vapour in… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
DORIS: Here's the two of spades. DUSTY: The two of spades! THAT'S THE COFFIN!! DORIS: THAT'S THE COFFIN? Oh good heavens what'll I do?… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
While the True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock. — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
She turns and looks a moment in the glass, Hardly aware of her departed lover; Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass: Well… — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound — James Kirkup Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere. — John Luckey McCreery Copy Share Image
It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright; — William Barnes Copy Share Image
If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once… — Henry Brooks Adams Copy Share Image