And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
