Croaking Quotes 

The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
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"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)

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'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

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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))

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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)

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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.

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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.

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