All Jonathan Swift Quotes
- I row after health like a waterman... Funny
- You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into. Cannot Reason
- They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly… Around Mars
- So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Ad
- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be… Any
- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed… Account
- Come, agree, the law's costly. Agree
- Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Flatter
- "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law. Abilities
- I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top. Confidence
- In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his… Ancestry
- Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. Bite
- The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Eye
- It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Break
- They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. Fingers
- I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. Charity
- There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. Constant
- I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land,… All
- And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been… Any
- Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? Afraid
- I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. Acquaintance
- Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired Acquired
- Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Any
- Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. Great
- She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. Body