Jonathan Swift quotes

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist, celebrated for works such as "Gulliver's Travels." His sharp wit and keen criticism targeted politics and society of his time. He is remembered as one of the greatest satirists in the English language. Here are 264 of his quotes:

Books, the children of the brain. (Jonathan Swift)
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. View quote
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. View quote
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May you live every day of your life. View quote
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. View quote
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. View quote
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Vision is seeing the invisible. View quote
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. View quote
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No wise man ever wished to be younger. View quote
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Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance. View quote
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...one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good. (Jonathan Swift)
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. View quote
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. View quote
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. View quote
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. View quote
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. View quote
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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. View quote
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Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. View quote
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. View quote
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. View quote
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. (Jonathan Swift)
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. View quote
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. View quote
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. View quote
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To o get angry is like to revenge yourself for the guilt of others. View quote
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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift - Image
Occupation: Anglo-Irish Writer
Born: November 30, 1667
Died: October 19, 1745
Quotes count: 264
Wikipedia: Jonathan Swift

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