Jonathan Swift Quotes


48 Jonathan Swift quotes:



"O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Worth Quotes
"Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Winners And Winning Quotes
"It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Scientists Quotes
"It was a bold person that first ate an oyster."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Risk Quotes
"All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Pain Quotes
"Taverns are places where madness is sold by the bottle"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Madness Quotes
"A lie is an excuse guarded"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Lies And Lying Quotes
"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Learning Quotes Irish Writer Quotes
"Observation is an old man's memory."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Memory Quotes Irish Writer Quotes
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Madness Quotes Irish Writer Quotes
"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Man Quotes Irish Writer Quotes
"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Power Quotes Irish Writer Quotes
"The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Ignorance Quotes
"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Hunger Quotes Irish Writer Quotes
"What some people invent the rest enlarge."
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Humorous Quotes
"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly"
Author: Swift Quotes Category: Heaven Quotes



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