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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
Prosaist
Public Figure
Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
Simon Wagstaff
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Poppies
More quotes by Jonathan Swift
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
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
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
Jonathan Swift
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Jonathan Swift
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.
Jonathan Swift
He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Jonathan Swift
Praise is the daughter of present power.
Jonathan Swift
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Jonathan Swift
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
Jonathan Swift
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
Jonathan Swift
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Jonathan Swift
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift
Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
Jonathan Swift
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
Jonathan Swift
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
Jonathan Swift
Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
Jonathan Swift
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
Jonathan Swift
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
Jonathan Swift
