Athwart Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. — William Shakespeare
• 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
• O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger… — William Shakespeare
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Athwart Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 2 Athwart Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 1 Athwart Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1 Athwart Quote by Robert Browning
• 1 Athwart Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 1 Athwart Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Athwart Quote by Hussein Nishah