"When dunces are satiric, I take it for…" — Jonathan Swift
"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift has 271 quotes on this site.
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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More Dunces Quotes
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one of 29 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
— George Santayana
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As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds…
— Clive James
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There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether…
— Robert Bellarmine
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a…
— Donald Harington
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Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity.…
— Jill Ciment
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The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.
— Daniel Tosh
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
— Poppy Z. Brite
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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has…
— C.S. Lewis
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We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
— C.S. Lewis
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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