chicken quotes

Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.

- George Granville Barker
  'To My Mother'.

When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone,General Weygand told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinetthat inthreeweeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken, some neck!

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech to the Canadian Parliament, 30 Dec.

What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry matter.

- Groucho originally Julius Henry Marx Marx
  Line delivered in The Cocoanuts (screenplay by George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind).

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

- Nancy Freeman Mitford
  Noblesse Oblige.