Dead Parrot

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or parrot:

“Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)