X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Jonathan Swift Inspirational Quotes (273)

Page 3 of 12
Filter & Style
Image
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
Image
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
Jonathan Swift
Image
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift
Image
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 throat before he married.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Image
How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.
Jonathan Swift
Image
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
Jonathan Swift
Image
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
Jonathan Swift
Image
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.
Jonathan Swift
Previous
Next