Jonathan Swift Quotes

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
Born: Nov 30, 1667
Died: Oct 19, 1745
Age Good Man Men Nothing Wise
Related authors: Bram Stoker Colum McCann George William Russell John McGahern Ken Bruen Marguerite Gardiner Sarah Rees Brennan
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
Life You Live Anniversary Days May Your
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift
You Genius Intelligence Sign True Know True Genius Him Dunces Confederacy Against Appears
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift
Legal Laws Small Through Catch Like May Break Which Flies Cobweb Wasps
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. Jonathan Swift
Lie Words Consist Neighbour Indirect Does False Deceive Intention Your Speaking Injure Desire Position
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift
Love Religion Hate Enough Make Another Us
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. Jonathan Swift
Man Age Old Long Live Every Wishes Every Man Desires
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift
Blessed Nothing Shall Never He Disappointed Expects Who
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift
Wise Man Wise Man Heart Money Head His Should
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Jonathan Swift
Men Wicked See Never Wonder Often Ashamed Them
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Jonathan Swift
Art Best Good People Manners Good Manners Those Easy Makes Making Uneasy Fewest Converse Room Bred Whoever Whom
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Jonathan Swift
Government Definition Without Governed Very Reason Consent Slavery
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. Jonathan Swift
Morning Man Late Eminence Lay Never Knew Come Greatness Who
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Jonathan Swift
Politics Word Nothing Corruptions Understood Commonly
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Jonathan Swift
Best Doctor World Doctors Quiet Diet
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Jonathan Swift
Nothing Others Those Abound Conceive How Want Riches Hard Who
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift
Mistake Too London Kingdom Folly Echo Voice Many
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift
Success Happy Miserable Power Only Merit Prudence Fortune
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Jonathan Swift
Life Wise Latter Follies Part Occupied Opinions False Contracted Curing Person Prejudices Earlier
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. Jonathan Swift
Life Man Age Experience New New Information Conduct Information Skilled Ever Receive
Books, the children of the brain. Jonathan Swift
Education Books Brain Children
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift
Great You Rest Example Nothing Manners Please Bad One Or Two Bad Manners Only None Offend Flatter Flattery Company Two
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Jonathan Swift
Man Together Woman Weather Rules Asunder Marry Window Put Thunder Anniversary Him None Stormy Who
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. Jonathan Swift
Pride Humility Mark Vanity Rather Than
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Jonathan Swift
Men Animals Fighting Other Imitation Diversion Most Sort Children
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Jonathan Swift
Age Youth Invention Judgment Talent
Observation is an old man's memory. Jonathan Swift
Man Memory Old Observation
Load more quotes

No more Jonathan Swift quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Jonathan Swift.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025