Mew Quotes
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It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with: “What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?”
henry s. haskins— p. 52 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.
— Hotspur, scene i
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers; I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree; And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry: 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 Act III, Scene I
Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 315.
