Gulliver Quotes
11 quotes by 8 authors
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
— Mary Karr
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Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and…
— Mary Karr
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
— Anthony Burgess
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Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease…
— Charles Lamb
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.
— Jonathan Swift
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America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a…
— Mohsin Hamid
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately…
— James Gleick
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Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies…
— Anthony Burgess
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The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
— Jonathan Swift
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The wee little people that live in my head won't let Gulliver go.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Who Wrote These Gulliver Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 11 Gulliver Quotes as follows: