Jonathan Swift Quotes

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift

Intelligence, True, Him

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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Life, Live, May

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift

Art, Others, Vision

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift

Blessed, Nothing, Shall

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Government, Reason, Slavery

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, Desire

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift

Money, Wise, Heart

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

Love, Religion, Hate

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift

Face, Everybody, Discover

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift

May, Through, Small

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

Today, Saying, Wrong

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift

Nothing, Hard, Others

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift

Good, Lost, Liquor

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Strength, Sometimes

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, Bad, Nothing

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Jonathan Swift

Good, Hurt, Enemy

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift

Few, Themselves, Mistake

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

Live, Long, Old

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift

Learning, Nothing, Words

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

Good, Best, Art

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift

Fool, Wonder, Kissing

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift

Place, Madness, Bottle

Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift

Children, Brain, Books

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Wise, Younger, Wished

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift

Food, Bold, Oyster

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: November 30, 1667

Died: October 19, 1745

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