Swift/description

Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or description:

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

“The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
—Freda Adler (b. 1934)