Swallow Quotes
435 quotes by 367 authors
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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women.…
— Oscar Wilde
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I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men…
— Joseph Conrad
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See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame.…
— Mary Doria Russell
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Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.
— George MacDonald
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I swallow any sort of apology. "screwing your neighbor." There. Said it. React, okay? pregnant pause becomes three weeks overdue. Four weeks. Time for a…
— Ellen Hopkins
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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
— Samuel Beckett
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The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you…
— David Eddings
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an…
— Brigham Young
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This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to…
— Alyson Noel
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had...
— Stephenie Meyer
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Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.
— Lisa Kleypas
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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
— Mark Twain
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Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, "If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole,…
— Neal Shusterman
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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully…
— Haruki Murakami
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There’s a good kind of crazy, Kaylee,†he insisted softly, reaching out to wrap his warm hand around mine. “It’s the kind that makes you…
— Rachel Vincent
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The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion…
— Jack Weatherford
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I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at…
— Suzanne Collins
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Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy…
— Ellen Hopkins
Who Wrote These Swallow Quotes
367 authors contributed a total of 435 Swallow Quotes, led by these top contributors: