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Jonathan Swift Quotes

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist

Nationality: Irish
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1667-1745
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that i
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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind w
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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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.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Observation is an old man's memory.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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Don't set your wit against a child.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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