little birds that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing
- little birds that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing
1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 343 The bird that can sing and will not sing must be made to sing.
1846 DICKENS Cricket on Hearth ii. ‘The bird that can sing and won’t sing, must be made to sing, they say,’ grumbled Tackleton. ‘What about the owl that can’t sing, and oughtn’t to sing, and will sing\?’
1888 A. QUILLER-COUCH Troy Town i. ‘A little music might perhaps leave a pleasant taste.’.. ‘Come, Sophy! Remember the proverb about little birds that can sing and won’t sing\?’
1904 G. K. CHESTERTON Napoleon of Notting Hill II. i. When the disdainful oligarchs declined to join in the songs of the men of the Broadway.., the great Republican leader, with his rough humour, said the words which are written in gold upon his monument, ‘Little birds that can sing and won’t sing, must be made to sing.’
1952 J. KNOX Little Benders 18 Heaven wasn’t so far away when you could do your own singing about it. Mama believed that and many a time she said, ‘A body who can sing and won’t sing ought to be made to sing.’
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