Swithin Quotes

#1. Swithin! And the fellow had gone and died, last November, at the age of seventy-nine, renewing the doubt whether Forsytes could live for ever, which had first arisen when Aunt Ann passed away.

John Galsworthy

#2. Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#3. The odd thing about a banana," Oliver Swithin mused as he chased the naked policewoman across the moonlit field, "is not that it's an excellent source of potassium, but that everybody seems to know it is.

Alan Beechey

#4. My ladsh," said Swithin, "are the besht there ish. It'sh not their fault they're up againsht better people.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Let me see: There's Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting together in Derbyshire on Saint Swithin's Day of 1867; Miss Treecreeper I don't remmeber where exactly
oh, and dear Miss Finch.

Ransom Riggs

#6. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet

Maureen O'Hara

#7. Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

Margaret Keane

#8. The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#9. A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

Mason Cooley

#10. How many people out there really set a budget?

Nelly

#11. Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

Peter Lynch

#12. Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

Silvio Berlusconi

#13. War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

Giles Duley