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Jonathan Swift Quote: “A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “When a man’s fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes is himself.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Sweeping from butcher’s stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown’d puppies, stinking sprats, all drench’d in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “War: that mad game the world so loves to play.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He’d wish his rivals all in Hell.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leavings.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Don’t set your wit against a child.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “You must take the will for the deed.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “This is every cook’s opinion – no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.”
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