Plumage Quotes

• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Child

• Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Desperation
  • Plumage
  • Rending

• When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.

  

  James Martineau
  • Soul
  • Spirit
  • Plumage

• Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

  

  Liberace
  • Show
  • Plumage
  • Mod

• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Gay
  • Bird
  • Wear