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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 (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men’s power to be agreeable (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment? (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
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 (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
I’ll give you leave to call me anything, if you don’t call me spade (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it (Jonathan Swift Quotes)
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time (Jonathan Swift Quotes)