It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — 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
