Quotes by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

English writer

Lived from: 1667 - 1745

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 november 1667 Died: 19 october 1745

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  • Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives.
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  • Don't set your wit against a child.
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  • Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
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  • Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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  • Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
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  • Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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  • Fine words! I wonder were you stole them.
    Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724)
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  • Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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  • He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
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  • He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
    Polite Conversation (1738)
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  • Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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  • I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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  • 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.
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  • I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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  • I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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  • I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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  • If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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  • 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.
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  • Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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  • Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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