Croaking Quotes
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The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
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More Croaking Quotes
"I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news."
eddie mair— After presenting an edition of PM in an unusually husky voice (November 6 2009)
'What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?'
mikhail bulgakov— Book One in 'Unwelcome Visitors', MG
What flocks of critics hover here to-day, As vultures wait on armies for their prey, All gaping for the carcase of a play! With croaking notes they bode some dire event, And follow dying poets by the scent.
john dryden— Prologue (All for Love (1678))
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, "Which Way?" (1884)
It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
— Aulularia, Act iv, sc. 3, 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Referenced in "That raven on yon left-hand oak/(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)/Bodes me no good", John Gay, ''Fables, Part I, The Farmer’s Wife and the Raven.
Indeed I have observed that even the Barbarians across the Rhine sing savage songs composed in language not unlike the croaking of harsh-voiced birds, and that they delight in such songs. For I think it is always the case that inferior musicians, though they annoy their audiences, give very great pleasure to themselves
— Julian, on the songs of the early Germans. As quoted in his Mispogon.
