Brood

Famous quotes containing the word brood:

    Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentance.”
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:7-8.

    This much, O heaven—if I should brood or rave,
    Pity me not; but let the world be fed,
    Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead,
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)