
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“I had a parrot. The parrot talked, but it did not say "I'm hungry", so it died.”
Mitch All Together (2003)
“When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. V : The Studio; Gilbert Markham
“The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bars.”
“A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.”
Note to Mirabeau, speaking of France, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), "France", p. 294.