A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained,… — 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
