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Jonathan Swift Quotes - Page 13

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Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Young, Worst, Company

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.221

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Taken, Light, Age

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

Rain, Cat, Tumbling Down

Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.246

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Romance, Ingredients, Degenerates

Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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

Understanding, Together, World

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.426

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.

Lying, Hype, Desire

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

Men, Vanity, Helping

Jonathan Swift (1746). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.316

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Vanity, Temptation, Natural

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Money, Art, Winning

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Mind, Virtue, Mankind

Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.446

Desponding Phyllis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and she turn'd her Ear: If o'er against her you were plac'd She durst not look above your Waist

Men, Prudes, Looks

Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope, John Gay (1742). “Miscellanies. In Four Volumes”, p.183

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Animal, Air, Tongue

Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.610

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Men, Guilt, Unqualified

Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.281

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Children, Fighting, Animal

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.615

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Sex, Anger, Delight

Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.187

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Mean, Men, Opinion

Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Coffee, Drink, Quails

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

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.

Art, Children, Writing

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.354

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

Business, Men, Imagination

Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.301

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Law, Evil, Bully

Jonathan Swift (1772). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift ...”

Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

Men, Broomsticks, Mortals

1710 A Meditation upon a Broomstick.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Hands, Done, Fewer

Jonathan Swift, Paul Anton Fedor Constantin POSSART (1831). “A Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books ... Mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von P. A. Fedor Possart”, p.114

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Savages, Arbitrary, Anarchy

Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.316

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Rose, Secrecy, Ends

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...”, p.237

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

Shining, Fiction, Poet

Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.430

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