(159 quotes found)
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“And who so happy,- O who, / As the Duck and the Kangaroo?”
Edward Lear
“He must be a chaser of wild geese, as well as of wild ducks. He must be prepared to make a public spectacle of himself.”
Robert E Sherwood
“Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.”
Charles Lamb
“I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.”
Michelle Pfeiffer
“Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.”
Richard Lewis
“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!”
William Allingham
“You know, it's just one small step from legacy to lame duck.”
Bill Clinton
“Oh, your precious `lame ducks'!”
John Galsworthy
“Always do that, wild duck. Stick at the bottom. Deep as they can get. . . . And so they never come up again.”
Henrik Ibsen
