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Jonathan Swift Quotes
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist
| “ | When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Thoughts on Various Subjects | ” |
| “ | Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Miscellanies, 1711 | ” |
| “ | One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. | ” |
| “ | No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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| “ | May you live all the days of your life. | ” |
| “ | It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. | ” |
| “ | 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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| “ | I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. | ” |
| “ | I row after health like a waterman... | ” |
| “ | He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. | ” |
| “ | A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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