Swallow Quotes
435 quotes by 367 authors
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My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke…
— Dr. Seuss
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I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of…
— Neil Gaiman
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of…
— A. S. Byatt
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Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.
— Ellen Hopkins
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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother…
— Lisa See
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So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have…
— Epictetus
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I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said,…
— Glen Duncan
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Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness,…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone…
— Salman Rushdie
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Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues
— Bob Dylan
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows.…
— Amy Tan
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With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one…
— Bram Stoker
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When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the…
— Emily Giffin
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you…
— Darcey Steinke
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I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one…
— Muriel Barbery
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I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my…
— Susanna Kaysen
Who Wrote These Swallow Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 435 Swallow Quotes, led by these top contributors: