Athwart Quotes
9 quotes by 7 authors
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines…
— Robert Browning
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A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
— William Shakespeare
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger…
— William Shakespeare
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I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,…
— Walt Whitman
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into ones life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to ones…
— Hussein Nishah
Who Wrote These Athwart Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 9 Athwart Quotes as follows: