Quotes of Quail - somelinesforyou

“ Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone. ”

- Thomas F. Kennedy

“ In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind, And pipings of the quail among the sheaves. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass… ”

- William Shakespeare
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