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Below is a compilation of different plump, graceful, and elegant quotes about swans that will surely remind you of their beauty and charm.Â
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63+ Beautiful Quotes About Swans
1. “O woman shapely as a swan.” – Padraic Colum
2. “All our geese are swans.” – Robert Burton
3. “Blood is the leitmotif of ‘Black Swan.” – Robert Gottlieb
4. “When turkeys mate they think of swans.” – Johnny Carson
5. “The immortal swan that did her life deplore.” – Giles Fletcher
6. “I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” – William Shakespeare
7. “Lead by example, Not by instruction.” – Jared Matthew Kessler
8. “If swans weren’t real myths’d make up.” – David Mitchell
9. “Remember that you are a black swan.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10. “I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.” – James Elroy Flecker
11. “This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game.” – Robinson Jeffers
12. “Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.” – Thomas Harris
13. “Swans in the winter air A white perfection have.” – W. H. Auden
14. “A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.” – Juvenal
15. “But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.” – Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
16. “Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan’s neck, so weak.” – Maria Sharapova
17. “If you’re looking for monogamy, you’d better marry a swan.” – Nora Ephron
18. “Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.” – Robinson Jeffers
19. “And swans seem whiter if swart Crowes be by.” – Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas
20. “I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie ‘Black Swan.” –Â Sherri Saum
21. “Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
22. “The swan is somewhat like a duck but much more graceful and wonderful than a duck.” – Jane Sun
23. “The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.” – Heinrich Heine
24. “The swan, like the soul of the poet. By the dull world is ill understood..” – Heinrich Heine
25. “Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.” – Michael Gira
26. “Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
27. “The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.” – Martial
28. “There’s a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.” – Thomas Hood
29. “Being born in a duck yard does not matter if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.” – Hans Christian Andersen
30. “Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads.” – Henry Noel Brailsford
31. “The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.” – Orlando Gibbons
32. “Swans sing before they die, ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
33. “The silver swan, who, living had no note When death approached unlocked her silent throat.” – Orlando Gibbons
34. “Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.” – John Milton
35. “The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steers, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.” – Heinrich Heine
36. “I don’t have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.” – Maeve Binchy
37. “Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so – and comes and goes as he pleases.” – Chanakya
38. “The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like a swan.” – Mary Helen Bowers
39. “The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.” – Cicero
40. “The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
41. “No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.” – Karl Popper
42. “No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.” – Karl Popper
43. “Ugly ducklings don’t turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.” – Bonnie Raitt
44. “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
45. “We bodged again, as I have been a swan with bootless labor swim against the tide And spend her strength with overmatching waves.” – William Shakespeare
46. “I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.” – Rufus Wainwright
47. “Women who start out as ugly ducklings don’t become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.” – Maeve Binchy
48. “The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music, strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her watery hearse.” – Phineas Fletcher
49. “I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.” – Rufus Wainwright
50. “There are two thousand of them constantly gliding back and forth through the canals, as noiseless as a ghost and as graceful as a swan.” – John Ra
51. “The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.” – Joseph Goebbels
52. “The swan who goes on living in its parents’ tree will die, this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.” – Arthur Golden
53. “Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.” – Chanakya
54. “As I have seen a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide And spend her strength with over-matching waves.” – William Shakespeare
55. “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
56. “The swan who goes on living in its parents’ tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.” – Arthur Golden
57. “No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.” – David Hume
58. “No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.” – David Hume
59. “This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast, Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.” – John Robinson Jeffers
60. “His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck’s nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan’s egg.” – Hans Christian Andersen
61. “There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.” – Maeve Binchy
62. “Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air, they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them.” – Gautama Buddha