Swell

Famous quotes containing the word swell:

“Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Herod-like slaughter of the innocents.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“Or don’t you like to write letters. I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“The swan’s down feather,
That stands upon the swell at the full of tide,
And neither way inclines.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)