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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift
Drinking, Bottles, Literature

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift
Art, People, Literature

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift
Literature, Affection, Ailments
'Journal to Stella' (published in 'Works', 1768) 1 February 1711

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

Jonathan Swift
Men, Pay, Literature
Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Jonathan Swift
Literature, Rogues, Fiddlers
1711 Journal to Stella, 25 July.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Jonathan Swift
Profound, Understanding, Literature
Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

Jonathan Swift
Literature, World, Constant
'A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind' (1709)

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

Jonathan Swift
Mistake, Literature
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.214

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

Jonathan Swift
Judging, Age, Literature

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift
Heaven, Ignorant, Literature
'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706).

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

Jonathan Swift
Style, Literature, Definitions

Observation is an old man's memory.

Jonathan Swift
Memories, Men, Literature
Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”

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
Literature, Poison, Beast
Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes, and a Life of the Author”, p.251

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