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Jonathan Swift Quotes about Age

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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Nurse, Miracle, Age

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.304

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Long, Age, Desire

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Judging, Age, Literature

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

Men, Criticism, Age

Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.899, Delphi Classics

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

Forever, Age, Want

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Age, Succeed, Imagine

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.273

What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

Friendship, Years, Age

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.764

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Wise, Time, Age

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

Taken, Light, Age

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

Air, Age, May

Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.61, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

Kings, Age, Example

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Taken, Age, Next

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Men, Age, Six

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Age, Might, Debate

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

Two, Age, Pedants

Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.359

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

Years, Age, Climate

'On Poetry' (1733) l. 5

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Men, Long, Age

'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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