Falcon Quotes

• The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

  Rumi

  Fighting, Winning, Color

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• Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Kissing, Beaks

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• Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

  Truman Capote

  Return, Masters, Said

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.87, Modern Library

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• The falcon cannot hear the falconer

  William Butler Yeats

  Falling Apart, Anarchy, Things Fall Apart Important

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Circles

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• The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Sky, Doe, Shells

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.52, Penguin

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• The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Kings, Wings, Crow

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• let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Beautiful, Stars, Struggle

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• The red rose whispers of passion,
  And the white rose breathes of love;
  O, the red rose is a falcon,
  And the white rose is a dove.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Flower, Passion, White

  John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

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• A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Cranes

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK

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• You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Masters

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• My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Taming Of The Shrew, Empty

  William Shakespeare, Harold James Oliver (1999). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.186, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ambition, Mind, Towers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Hopeful, Coincidence

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather.

  Michael Drayton

  Together, Dove, Feathers

  "The Works of Michael Drayton".

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• I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Mind, Trouble, Film Noir

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

  Alexander Pope

  Wings, Hawks, Dove

  Alexander Pope (1840). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...”, p.249

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• I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Son, Wells, My Own

  "Fictional character: Kasper Gutman". "The Maltese Falcon", www.imdb.com. October 3, 1941.

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• The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Moving, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

  Robert B. Parker

  Book

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it.

  Hilda Lewis

  Horse, Thinking, Light

  "The Gentle Falcon". Book by Hilda Lewis, 1957.

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• The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Crooks, Noir, Sam Spade

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage

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