Swift

Famous quotes containing the word swift:

“Beneath the sun’s rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
So Fortune’s smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“And, is not Virtue in Mankind
The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“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)