Quotes about wren

A collection of quotes on the topic of wren, men, fear, thinking.

Quotes about wren

Edward Lear photo

“There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"”

Edward Lear (1812–1888) British artist, illustrator, author and poet

Book of Nonsense http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nnsns10.txt, Limerick 1 (1846).

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim.
~Wren”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

Anne Sexton photo

“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Complete Poems

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo

“Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Society and Solitude, Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's."”

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) British writer

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo

“The work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface: the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass of paper which lies before us better than by saying that it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shallum. But unhappily the life of man is now three-score years and ten; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence. Compared with the labour of reading through these volumes, all other labour, the labour of thieves on the treadmill, of children in factories, of negroes in sugar plantations, is an agreeable recreation.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

Review of a life of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by Edward Nares, Edinburgh Review, 1832)
Attributed

Gerald Durrell photo

“His pen squeaking like a demented wren as he wrote copious notes.”

Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter

Rosie Is My Relative (1968)

William Blake photo

“He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be beloved by men.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 29

Frantz Fanon photo