Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share
