(6 quotes found)
“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.”
William Shakespeare
“He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.”
William Blake
“Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight”
“You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.”
William James
“A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.”
Irish Proverb
“I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?”
Bette Davis
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