Swan Quotes
129 Swan quotes by 76 unique authors
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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song…
— Michel Patini
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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind…
— Haruki Murakami
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You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
— Natalia Makarova
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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
— Quentin Crisp
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Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which…
— Robert M. Lindner
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Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes -…
— Natalia Makarova
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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her…
— Orlando Gibbons
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The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms…
— Lord Byron
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
— Martial
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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
— Juvenal
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The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
— Heinrich Heine
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It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry…
— Phineas Fletcher
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But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ...…
— Woody Allen
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Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
— Henry Miller
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Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
— Maria Sharapova
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I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop…
— Rufus Wainwright
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Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make…
— Harvey Weinstein
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With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
— James Wolcott
Who Wrote These Swan Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 129 Swan Quotes, led by these top contributors: