Famous quotes containing the word sweep:
“I have to get your room ready for you: to sweep and dust, to fetch and carry. How could that degrade me if it did not degrade you to have it done for you?”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realitiesa willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forcesa movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if youre going to be lazy.”
—Shirley Conran (b. 1932)
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