All Jonathan Swift Quotes
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid Any
- The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing Compass
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion Eradicate
- All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's… All
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Art
- Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. Broken
- Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly. Care
- May you live all the days of your life. --Jonathan Swift All
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the… According
- Your notions of friendship arenew to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another.… Another Scene
- Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly of talking too much. Exploded