Swiftness Quotes by Marcel Proust

More Swiftness Quotes

Popular Swiftness quotes from across the collection:

• When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress… — Sun Tzu
• For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of… — Raymond Dart
• I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick
• In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity… — Gaston Bachelard
• Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde
• Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. — Potter Stewart
• We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running. — William Shakespeare
• There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on… — Bill McCollum
• The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata
• To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start — Jean de La Fontaine
• Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness… — Frances E. Willard
• Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as… — Steven Pinker

See all Swiftness Quotes »