Swift

Famous quotes containing the word swift:

“You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don’t know, you don’t question it, you even distrust your own doubts.”
—Graham Swift (b. 1949)

“Nor now the long light on the sea—
And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on . . .”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

“Come, agree, the law’s costly.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)