All Jonathan Swift Quotes
- Observation is an old man's memory. Man
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Boots
- There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. Acting
- We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. Affection
- Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. Concluded
- I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render… Any
- It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to… Been
- Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. Appears
- Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. Comparison
- A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he… Blood
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion. Eradicate
- Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. Affects
- I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but… All
- I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point… Affirm
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year… Acquaintance
- We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. Age
- If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. Comfort
- That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I… Agree
- And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot… Better
- Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. Fine