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
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A… — 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
