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All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Jonathan Swift
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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
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Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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More quotes by Jonathan Swift
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Jonathan Swift
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
Jonathan Swift
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
Jonathan Swift
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Jonathan Swift
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
Jonathan Swift
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
Jonathan Swift
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
Jonathan Swift
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
Jonathan Swift
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
Jonathan Swift
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
Jonathan Swift
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves give up their dead.
Jonathan Swift
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
Jonathan Swift
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Jonathan Swift
