--- title: "29 Ifs Quotes By Jonathan Swift" description: "29 Ifs quotes by Jonathan Swift. Plus more from Jonathan Swift and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/jonathan-swift-433_belief_if-you-were-not-reasoned-into-your-belie_2842011.jpg" --- > [If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-you-were-not-reasoned-into-your-beliefs-you-cannot-be-reasoned-out/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/jonathan-swift-433_belief_if-you-were-not-reasoned-into-your-belie_2842011.jpg) > [Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/faith-that-s-as-well-said-as-if-i-had-said-it-myself/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/jonathan-swift-433_conceited_faith-that-s-as-well-said-as-if-i-had-sa_1378937.jpg) > [She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/she-s-no-chicken-she-s-on-the-wrong-side-of-thirty-if-she-be-a-day/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/jonathan-swift-433_chickens_she-s-no-chicken-she-s-on-the-wrong-side_935526.jpg) > [Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/hail-follow-well-met-all-dirty-and-wet-find-out-if-you-can-who-s/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/jonathan-swift-433_dirty_hail-follow-well-met-all-dirty-and-wet-f_1262484.jpg) > [An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/an-english-tongue-if-refined-to-a-certain-standard-might-perhaps-be/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c9/jonathan-swift-433_certain_an-english-tongue-if-refined-to-a-certai_1584862.jpg) > [I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-ll-give-you-leave-to-call-me-anything-if-you-don-t-call-me-spade/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ee/jonathan-swift-433_call-me_i-ll-give-you-leave-to-call-me-anything_2542812.jpg) > [She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/she-wears-her-clothes-as-if-they-were-thrown-on-with-a-pitchfork/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0a/jonathan-swift-433_apparel_she-wears-her-clothes-as-if-they-were-th_1841276.jpg) > [If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-the-world-had-but-a-dozen-arbuthnots-in-it-i-would-burn-my-travels/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e5/jonathan-swift-433_biographies_if-the-world-had-but-a-dozen-arbuthnots_3098002.jpg) > [If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-the-men-of-wit-and-genius-would-resolve-never-to-complain-in-their/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1a/jonathan-swift-433_age_if-the-men-of-wit-and-genius-would-resol_1961050.jpg) > [It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/it-often-happens-that-if-a-lie-be-believed-only-for-an-hour-it-has/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/jonathan-swift-433_belief_it-often-happens-that-if-a-lie-be-believ_1884259.jpg) > [If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-they-would-for-example-praise-the-beauty-of-a-woman-or-any-other/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/jonathan-swift-433_animal_if-they-would-for-example-praise-the-bea_1368187.jpg) > [If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-a-man-would-register-all-his-opinions-upon-love-politics-religion/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b2/jonathan-swift-433_age_if-a-man-would-register-all-his-opinions_3140178.jpg) > [If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-a-man-will-observe-as-he-walks-the-streets-i-believe-he-will-find/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/011/jonathan-swift-433_believe_if-a-man-will-observe-as-he-walks-the-st_2576447.jpg) > [There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/there-never-appear-more-than-five-or-six-men-of-genius-in-an-age-but/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/781/jonathan-swift-433_age_there-never-appear-more-than-five-or-six_1627226.jpg) > [If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-a-lump-of-soot-falls-into-the-soup-and-you-cannot-conveniently-get/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/jonathan-swift-433_cooking_if-a-lump-of-soot-falls-into-the-soup-an_394005.jpg) > [Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/every-age-might-perhaps-produce-one-or-two-geniuses-if-they-were-not/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/335/jonathan-swift-433_age_every-age-might-perhaps-produce-one-or-t_2959016.jpg) > [If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-it-were-a-rainy-day-a-drunken-vigil-a-fit-of-the-spleen-a-course/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e8/jonathan-swift-433_beggar_if-it-were-a-rainy-day-a-drunken-vigil-a_1037402.jpg) > [My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/my-lawyer-being-practiced-almost-from-his-cradle-in-defending/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a22/jonathan-swift-433_awkwardness_my-lawyer-being-practiced-almost-from-hi_3149302.jpg) > [It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/it-is-not-so-much-the-being-exempt-from-faults-as-the-having-overcome/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/505/jonathan-swift-433_advantage_it-is-not-so-much-the-being-exempt-from_1217081.jpg) > [Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/brisk-talkers-are-usually-slow-thinkers-there-is-indeed-no-wild-beast/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/090/jonathan-swift-433_abuse_brisk-talkers-are-usually-slow-thinkers_2941058.jpg) > [A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-jargon-form-d-from-the-lost-language-wit-confounded-in-that-babel/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8a/jonathan-swift-433_babel_a-jargon-form-d-from-the-lost-language-w_2048353.jpg) > [A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sham-quotations-peri-hupsos-and/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/jonathan-swift-433_book_a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sha_31816.jpg) > [Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/conscience-signifies-that-knowledge-which-a-man-hath-of-his-own/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/jonathan-swift-433_accusers_conscience-signifies-that-knowledge-whic_2241334.jpg) > [I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-have-now-lost-my-barrier-between-me-and-death-god-grant-i-may-live/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/300/jonathan-swift-433_barriers_i-have-now-lost-my-barrier-between-me-an_140147.jpg) > [Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/vain-men-delight-in-telling-what-honours-have-been-done-them-what/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/jonathan-swift-433_believe_vain-men-delight-in-telling-what-honours_460580.jpg) > [I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-am-convinced-that-if-the-virtuosi-could-once-find-out-a-world-in/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/696/jonathan-swift-433_convinced_i-am-convinced-that-if-the-virtuosi-coul_2808817.jpg) > [Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/desponding-phyllis-was-endu-d-with-ev-ry-talent-of-a-prude-she/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fe/jonathan-swift-433_ears_desponding-phyllis-was-endu-d-with-ev-ry_2454020.jpg) > [But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/but-you-think-that-it-is-time-for-me-to-have-done-with-the-world-and/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/jonathan-swift-433_dies_but-you-think-that-it-is-time-for-me-to_2641375.jpg) > [Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/neither-are-any-wars-so-furious-and-bloody-or-of-so-long-continuance/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c7/jonathan-swift-433_bloody_neither-are-any-wars-so-furious-and-bloo_2301195.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Jonathan Swift > [Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/time-is-painted-with-a-lock-before-and-bald-behind-signifying-thereby/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/he-said-he-knew-no-reason-why-those-who-entertain-opinions/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-with-borrow-d-silver-shine-what-you-see-is-none-of-mine-first-i/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-favor-is-half-granted-when-graciously-refused/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-never-wonder-to-see-men-wicked-but-i-often-wonder-to-see-them-not/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/the-best-maxim-i-know-in-this-life-is-to-drink-your-coffee-when-you/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [A lie is an excuse guarded](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-lie-is-an-excuse-guarded/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sham-quotations-peri-hupsos-and/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [May you live every day of your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/may-you-live-every-day-of-your-life/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/ale-is-meat-drink-and-cloth-it-will-make-a-cat-speak-and-a-wise-man/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/all-fits-of-pleasure-are-balanced-by-an-equal-degree-of-pain-or/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/satire-is-a-sort-of-glass-wherein-beholders-do-generally-discover/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/when-a-great-genius-appears-in-the-world-you-may-know-him-by-this/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/i-have-ever-hated-all-nations-professions-and-communities-and-all-my/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) > [So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/so-endless-and-exorbitant-are-the-desires-of-men-that-they-will-grasp/) [Jonathan Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-swift/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/jonathan-swift/#itemlist", "name": "29 Ifs Quotes By Jonathan Swift", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Swift" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/if-you-were-not-reasoned-into-your-beliefs-you-cannot-be-reasoned-out/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/jonathan-swift-433_belief_if-you-were-not-reasoned-into-your-belie_2842011.jpg", 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Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Swift" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sham-quotations-peri-hupsos-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/jonathan-swift-433_book_a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sha_31816.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/jonathan-swift-433_book_a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sha_31816.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/jonathan-swift-433_book_a-forward-critic-often-dupes-us-with-sha_31816.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will…” — Jonathan Swift", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Swift" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-swift/conscience-signifies-that-knowledge-which-a-man-hath-of-his-own/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/jonathan-swift-433_accusers_conscience-signifies-that-knowledge-whic_2241334.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/jonathan-swift-433_accusers_conscience-signifies-that-knowledge-whic_2241334.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65d/jonathan-swift-433_accusers_conscience-signifies-that-knowledge-whic_2241334.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man…” — Jonathan Swift", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 24, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! 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