Gulliver Quotes

“I get Gulliver’s Travels and Thousand Island dressing mixed up.”

— Jarod Kintz

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

— John Gay

The wee little people that live in my head won't let Gulliver go.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I've never seen the film 'Gulliver's Travels' - and I'm in it.

— James Corden

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.

— Jonathan Swift

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

— Jonathan Swift

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

— Maria Semple

“I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you,…

— Nora Roberts

Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be…

— Mary Karr

“I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you,…

— Nora Roberts

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding…

— Erica Bauermeister

“Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of…

— Jonathan Swift

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically…

— Jonathan Swift

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything…

— Jonathan Swift

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would…

— George Orwell

“The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on…

— Jonathan Swift

“It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring…

— Terry Eagleton

“Gulliver arrives in new land and discovers acrid smell; finds whole country massaging cabbages; concludes they are doing it in service to…

— Euny Hong

“The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he…

— Colson Whitehead

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite…

— Charles Lamb

when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather…

— Helen Eustis

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen…

— Aldous Huxley

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow…

— Jonathan Swift

I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,…

— Ray Bradbury

“He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep…

— George Eliot

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps…

— Anthony Burgess

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

— Mary Karr

“Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's…

— James K. Morrow

“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Over your body the clouds go High, high and icily And a little flat, as if they Floated on a glass that…

— Sylvia Plath

When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they…

— James Gleick

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on…

— Anthony Burgess

There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has…

— Marina Warner