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 Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Jonathan Swift wrote that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate one another,” Jonathan Swift once observed, “but not enough to make us love… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.” — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Like Jonathan Swift, Yeats was always a great renamer of his women, giving them mythical aliases or the names of Sir Walter… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift: Guliverova putovanja ll. dio U nadi da ću se još više umiliti njegovu veličanstvu, pripovjedio sam mu o izumu koji… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“[V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
“As the eighteenth- century author Jonathan Swift wrote, you cannot reason someone out of something he has not been reasoned into.” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” — Jonathan Swift” — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
