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Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Writer
Nationality: Irish
Born: November 30, 1667
Died: October 19, 1745

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Select Jonathan Swift Quotations

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

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

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

Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift

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

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

Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift

All Jonathan Swift Quotations

Words

Bad, Company, Example, Flatter, Flattery, Great, Manners, None, Nothing, Offend, Only, Please, Rest, Two

Definitions

Bad, Company, Example, Flatter, Flattery, Great, None, Nothing, Offend, Only, Please, Rest, Two