Quote

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
Poet
Priest
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
Affection
Literature
Another
Ailments
Fond

More quotes by Jonathan Swift

Image
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Jonathan Swift
Image
If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
Jonathan Swift
Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings Who float upon the tide of state, Come hither, and behold your fate. Let pride be taught by this rebuke, How very mean a thing's a Duke From all his ill-got honours flung, Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
Jonathan Swift
Image
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift
Image
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Jonathan Swift
Image
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
Jonathan Swift
Image
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift
Image
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
Jonathan Swift
Image
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
Image
It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.
Jonathan Swift
Image
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Jonathan Swift
Image
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
Jonathan Swift