(59 quotes found)
“When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.”
William Shakespeare
“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.”
“A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.”
Chinese Proverbs
“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”
Peter De Vries
“The teeth of a tigress holding its cub tenderly are the same that ferociously devour its prey .”
Dr. Anirudh Kapoor
“It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.”
Jean Baptiste Racine
“So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum”
Jonathan Swift
“The voyeur is masturbator, the mirror his badge, the window his prey.”
Jim Morrison
“The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey.”
David Herbert Lawrence
“We've been inundated with complaints. This company is engaged in the worst kind of consumer fraud, preying on people's fears of rising natural gas prices and resorting to deception in order to boost sales.”
David Kolata
