“Surprising news from New York, the whistle-blower had his whistle blown!”
Amy Poehler (1971) American actress
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“As clear as a whistle.”
Epistle to Lloyd I' as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Poet, inventor of a shorthand system 1692–1763Related quotes
“Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
Virgil, Georgics, book ii, line 72; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Ravish'd with the whistling of a name", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv, line 281.
“Whistle, and she'll come to you.”
John Fletcher Wit Without Money
Act IV, scene 4.
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Letters to Russell, Keynes and Moore
“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the wind.”
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 16 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?”
Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer
Riddle presented in The Joys of Yiddish (1968) The answer: "A Herring" — because you can paint it green, nail it to the wall — and the whistling part is added just to make the riddle hard." Rosten did not claim to be the author of this riddle, but he popularized it.
“I am the penny whistle of American literature.”
Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
"I heard him say one time" about being cheated out of the profits of The Man With the Golden Arm film, quoted by Kurt Vonnegut, 1986.
Nonfiction works
“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
The Canterbury Tales