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Top 400 Jonathan Swift Quotes (2025 Update)
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Jonathan Swift Quote: “I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Everyone desires long life, not one old age.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the public: but.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses, – to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader’s imagination.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man’s understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Perverseness is your whole defence.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “My hunger serves me instead of a clock.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Truth shines the brighter clad in verse.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “I swam as fortune directed me, and.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.”
Jonathan Swift Quote: “Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.”
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