Jonathan Swift Quotes

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift

Humility, Pride, Rather

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

Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift

Child, Against, Wit

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift

Politics, Nothing, Word

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift

Power, Blessing, Used

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift

Best, Diet, Quiet

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift

Money, Wise, Heart

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.
Jonathan Swift

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift

Morning, Greatness, Knew

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Jonathan Swift

Fool, Wine, Kiss

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

Anniversary, Woman, Together

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift

Love, Cold, Volatile

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift

Public, Tax, Pays

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift

Life, Human, Find

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Often, Wonder

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift

Voice, Mistake, London

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift

Humor, Men, Happy

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
Jonathan Swift

Good, Live, Together

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

Love, Hate, Animal

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Jonathan Swift

Broken, Promises

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, Person

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

Success, Power, Happy

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift

True, Words, Style

Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift

Heaven, Valuable, Riches

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Writer

Born: November 30, 1667

Died: October 19, 1745

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