Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Jonathan Swift
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Wigs
Triumphant
Join
Save
Rain
Whigs
England
Tories
Politics
Feuds
Forget
More quotes by Jonathan Swift
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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.
Jonathan Swift
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Jonathan Swift
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Jonathan Swift
What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Jonathan Swift
I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Jonathan Swift
My horses understand me tolerably well I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
Jonathan Swift
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
Jonathan Swift
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
Jonathan Swift
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Jonathan Swift
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Jonathan Swift
The more careless, the more modish.
Jonathan Swift
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
Jonathan Swift
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
Jonathan Swift
Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
Jonathan Swift
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan Swift
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
Jonathan Swift
