You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to… — 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
