Swift

Famous quotes containing the word swift:

“It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
In motion of no less celerity
Than that of thought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)