Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a… — 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
“A sort of animals, to whose share, [...] some small pittance of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“So impossible it is for a man who looks no further than the present world to fix himself long in a contemplation… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Based on Gulliver's descriptions of their behaviour, the King describes Europeans as "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“...I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“And I remember in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve… — 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
