Top 30 Plumed Quotes
#1. Black Jack. A common name for rogues and scoundrels in the eighteenth century. A staple of romantic fiction, the name conjured up charming highwaymen, dashing blades in plumed hats. The reality waled at my side.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him.
Christopher Healy
#3. Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.
Edith Wharton
#4. If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.
Augustus William Hare
#5. The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#6. We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go
Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
Emily Dickinson
#7. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue.
William Shakespeare
#8. American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
Max Lerner
#9. Now the time is come,
That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap.
William Shakespeare
#10. Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.
Plato
#11. Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#12. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
William Shakespeare
#13. Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights.
Michael Shaara
#14. Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.
David Pajo
#15. Man is a column of blood, with a voice in it, he said. And when the voice is still, and he is only a column of blood, he is better.
D.H. Lawrence
#16. You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
Kylie Minogue
#17. If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
Alicia Keys
#18. Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.
Tom Hooper
#19. When i was 12 all of my friends had girlfriends and i didn't, i felt lonely so i asked my mom to date me.
Niall Horan
#21. Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.
Anthony Dirrell
#23. I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#24. The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
Angelus Silesius
#26. Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine
#27. You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
#28. I have realized that my will, no matter how intelligent I am, is only another nuisance on the face of the earth, once I start exerting it. And other people's wills are even worse.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
George R R Martin
