Dove famous quotes

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

His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered
-- Ann Aguirre

#Butterfly #Wings #Dove

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Knaves #Fool #Dove

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
-- Clarice Lispector

#Dove #Made #Abyss

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
-- Edith Piaf

#Fly Away #Dove #Curtains

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Heart #Wings #Dove

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.
-- Horace

#Eagles #Fierce #Dove

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
-- Jean Genet

#Night #Hours #Dove

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.
-- Jordan Sonnenblick

#Paper #Dove #Holmes

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
-- Juvenal

#Ravens #Censorship #Dove

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.
-- Marisha Pessl

#Character #Dove #Inferno

The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
-- Michael Drayton

#Together #Dove #Falcon

I say love, and the world populates itself with doves.
-- Pablo Neruda

#Love #World #Dove

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
-- Robert Duvall

#Thinking #Dove #Lonesome

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
-- Saint Augustine

#Hate #Dove #Quarrels

The dove is my emblem.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Technology #Dove #Emblems

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.
-- Tommy Douglas

#Hawks #Ottawa #Dove

Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!
-- Vic Reeves

#Stars #Dove

I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.
-- Christian Hosoi

#Different #Dove #Prove It

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.
-- Zach Condon

#Unique #Daydreaming #Dove