Swept

Famous quotes containing the word swept:

“so for your arrogance
and your ruthlessness
I am swept back
where dead lichens drip
dead cinders upon moss of ash....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.”
—Chinese proverb.