Swelling Quote by Petronius

“After a long moment Laurent said, with painful honesty, "I...find it difficult to let go of control." "No kidding," said Damen.”

— S.U. Pacat

I believe you when you said you love me and I am the only one in your heart that you can't live if I…

— Anonymous

They said the most painful thing in the world is losing someone important to you but,the truth is it's losing yourself in the process…

— Chin-chin

“You take refuge in pets, and then there are pets that you love more than you thought you could, and the years go by…

— Dan Kennedy

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at…

— Robert Southey

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and…

— Mark Twain

The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad…

— Charles Loring Brace

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can…

— Jane Austen

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search…

— Francis Bacon