Swift Quotes

339 Swift quotes by 263 unique authors

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the… — William Butler Yeats
[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. — Martial
A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. — William Shakespeare
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… — William Cowper
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,… — Alexander Pope
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. — Oliver Goldsmith
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
Someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty. — Diplo
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade… — Ralph Neas
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a… — Matthew Arnold
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake. — Patti Smith
A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems… — Cameron Dokey
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but… — Jake Shimabukuro
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I… — Amos Bronson Alcott
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. — Honore de Balzac
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting… — Hartley Coleridge

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