William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I am a feather for each wind that blows"
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Feathers
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"Hope is a thing with feathers"
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"I may have a feather duster down my pants."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"The basic and essential human is the woman."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers."
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"Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken."
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"Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market."
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"A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre."
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"With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."
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"Man is a biped without feathers."
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"Words and feathers the wind carries away."
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"Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly."
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"I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry."
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"Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws."
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"Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule."
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"Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!"
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