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Quotes About Fawn

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?
~ James Lee Burke
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might,if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
~ Raymond Chandler
He met the Beans on the trail, and led them on to where his people waited. They all carried glowing lights that made a radiance in the forest. But presently, one by one, the lights vanished. The forest grew still again, and empty save for a wandering doe and her fawn. The
~ Alexander Key
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
~ Woody Allen, Without Feathers
When Susan went to the calf place, there in a nest of hay in the stall, lay a small, damp, red, curly-haired little calf, with shapely head and white face and body like a fawn's.
~ Alison Uttley
The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?
~ Aeschylus
All he has to do is listen to the animal inside him. All he has to do is find his mate, and protect her. She blinked back at him. Who is his mate? Fawn, Stygian said softly behind her. Son of a bitch, that's why he's so enraged. She's his mate. The bastard isn't feral, he's in mating heat.
~ Lora Leigh
Remember me very kindly to the duke, and pray enable poor Fawn to keep up his spirits. If he likes to arrange a meeting with Lord George, I shall be only too happy to be his friend. You remember our last duel. Chiltern is with you, and can put Fawn up to the proper way of getting over to Flanders, — and of returning, should he chance to escape.
~ Anthony Trollope
And now," she passed her hand across her eyes, "now it is all over. The idol has come sliding down its pedestal to fawn and grovel with all the other infatuates in the dust about my feet.
~ Max Beerbohm
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
~ George William Russell
poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room
~ Nikki Giovanni
I am the guardian of the sleeping fawn; the snow is dear to me; and the moon rising; and the silver sea.
~ Virginia Woolf
She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
~ Raymond Chandler
Into the emotional scene which followed I need not go in detail. You will have witnessed much the same sort of thing in the pictures, when the United States Marines arrive in the nick of time to relieve the beleaguered garrison. I may sum it up by saying that he fawned upon me.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
~ Hansika Motwani