Swans Quotes
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Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.
— Philip Massinger
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
— Heinrich Heine
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
— Joseph Joubert
This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.
— Robinson Jeffers
Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity. — Henry Noel Brailsford
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.
— Sathya Sai Baba
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
— James Elroy Flecker
Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.
— Rainn Wilson
I no longer care if I die, said Korin, then, after a long silence, pointed to the nearby flooded quarry: Are those swans?
— Laszlo Krasznahorkai
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
— Maeve Binchy
The clouds, warm now, sun-spotted, sweep over the hills, leaving gold in the water, and gold on the necks of the swans.
— Virginia Woolf
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.
— Connie Willis
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans ... because I can still feel that affinity.
— Jean Sibelius
And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.
— Irene Nemirovsky
Every man thinks his own geese swans.
— Charles Dickens
Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parksAnd far beyond the discords of the wind. — Wallace Stevens
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
My mother is part albino. Bella Swan
— Stephenie Meyer
The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life.I wish they could talk. I have questions. — Suzanne Finnamore
I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.
— Anna Chancellor
Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
— Quentin Crisp
To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans — Zoe Marriott
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
Get my swan costume ready.
— Anna Pavlova
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
— Ben Jonson
The swans of our childhood were probably just pigeons.'" He
— Charlie Carillo
O woman shapely as a swan.
— Padraic Colum
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
— William Wordsworth
If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.
— David Mitchell
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
— Van Wyck Brooks
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
— Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas
Swans in the winter airA white perfection have — W. H. Auden
Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,Roses do blush and hang their heads — Henry Noel Brailsford
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
— Wilkie Collins
In Virginia... all geese are swans.
— John Adams
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
— Barry Ritholtz
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
— James Russell Lowell
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
— Walter De La Mare
my antidote to Black Swans is precisely to be noncommoditized in my thinking. But
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
— Martial
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
— Hans Christian Andersen
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
— Johnny Carson
