Swallow Quotes
435 quotes by 367 authors
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a…
— Aristotle
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great…
— Paul Auster
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I…
— Halle Berry
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I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.
— Alain de Botton
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens.…
— Jo Brand
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
— Richard Burton
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.
— Harry Secombe
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the…
— Al Alvarez
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.
— Harvey Penick
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never…
— Oscar Wilde
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People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
— Moliere
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Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
— William Shenstone
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded,…
— Salman Rushdie
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A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
— Grenville Kleiser
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement…
— Gilbert Burnet
Who Wrote These Swallow Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 435 Swallow Quotes, led by these top contributors: