Swiftian Quotes

#1. The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

Mary McCarthy

#2. Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus

#4. Life is filled with trapdoors.

Brad Meltzer

#5. I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife ... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

Candice Olson

#6. They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

Joseph Bau

#7. I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

Lauren Mayberry