All Jonathan Swift Quotes
- A carpenter is known by his chips. Carpenter
- The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. Aviation
- The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.… Always Preach
- The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. Best
- A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to… Choose
- I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. Appetite
- The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. Any
- I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. Cards
- Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy. Age
- It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. Allows
- Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by… Apt
- Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain… All
- No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to… Elder
- Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. Contrary
- Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. Act
- All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue. All
- She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. Clothes
- Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please… Accidents
- Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Argument
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what… Age
- The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. Course
- War: that mad game the world so loves to play. Game
- I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. Cat
- She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. Cat
- That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would… Accidental