Fowl Quotes

• Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

  James Joyce

  Food, Heart, Soup

  Ulysses (1922) p. 53

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patience, Eggs, Hatching

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.404, Wildside Press LLC

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• HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Two, Voice

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

  Herman Melville

  Cooking, Speak

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1781, Delphi Classics

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• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Country

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 1 (1928)

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• The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• O execrable son! so to aspire
  Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurped, from God not given.
  He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
  Dominion absolute; that right we hold
  By his donation; but man over men
  He made not lord; such title to himself
  Reserving, human left from human free.

  John Milton

  Son, Men, Titles

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365

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• If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Winning, Way

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl”, Miramax

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• Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.

  Eoin Colfer

  Artemis Fowl, Artemis

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

  Eoin Colfer

  Confidence, Humorous, Cocky

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

  Eoin Colfer

  Unicorn, Never Forget, Forget

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• Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

  William Shakespeare

  Fins, Fishes, Feathers

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1098, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

  Eoin Colfer

  Morning, Princess, Doe

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.733, Penguin UK

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• Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!

  Eoin Colfer

  Who Cares, Steel, Looks

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• Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

  Eoin Colfer

  Boys, Scratches, Earth

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.749, Penguin UK

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• Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Doctors, Littles

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• Trust me. I haven't been wrong yet.

  Eoin Colfer

  Trust Me, Artemis, Havens

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he usurped for himself over the cow and the horse.

  Milan Kundera

  Horse, Men, Order

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1884.

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• Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

  Eoin Colfer

  Life, Assumption, Fairy

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

  George Eliot

  Eggs, Silence, Doe

  'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

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• I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

  Black Elk

  Horse, Animal, Numbers

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

  Eoin Colfer

  Team, World, Butlers

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• Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with.

  Eoin Colfer

  Artemis, Humans, Knows

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl”, Miramax

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• Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.

  Eoin Colfer

  Team, Water, Cracks

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.108, Penguin UK

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• Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

  Eoin Colfer

  Different, Would Be, Use

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.17, Penguin UK

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