I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — 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
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
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For in that universal call, Few bankers will to heaven be mounters; They'll cry, "Ye shops, upon us fall! Conceal and cover… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who… — 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
