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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  • Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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  • Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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  • Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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  • Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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  • Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
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  • Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
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  • She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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  • Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
    Works (1754)
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  • Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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  • The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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  • The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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  • The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
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  • The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
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  • The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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  • The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
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  • The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
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  • There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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  • There is none so blind as they that won't see.
    Polite Conversation (1738)
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  • There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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