Birds Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

28 Birds Quotes
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“The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill-- . . . . The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo grey, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer nay.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at III, i)
“That byrd ys nat honest That fylythe hys owne nest.”
John Skelton Quotes
Source: Poems Against Garnesche (III)
“The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.”
William C. Somerville Quotes
Source: The Chace