Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or left:
“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)
“When the plowman fled,
having left a highborn woman
in the throes of ecstasy,
thinking her dead,
the cotton plant
bobbed with the weight
of new bloom on its stalk
as if laughing.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)