Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image ““If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.”” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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“Making attempt, working day and night is not enough. We must believe in what we do. We must believe the impossible before it can… — Anufa Freeborn Copy Share Image
“Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If they think it's the truth, then they believe it, and if they believe it long enough, then it becomes the truth.” — Jason Carter Eaton Copy Share Image
“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought” — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
